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General Obligation Bond

A municipal bond whose interest and principal payments are supported by the full faith and credit of...

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General Order

A penalty imposed on imported goods that are not promptly cleared through customs....

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General Partner

A participant who has unlimited liability for the obligations of a partnership....

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General Partnership

A partnership in which all participants are general partners....

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General Revenue

The sum of taxes, charges, and miscellaneous income taken in at the state and local level while negl...

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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

The overall conventions, rules, and procedures that define accepted accounting practice at a particu...

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Generation-skipping Transfer Or Trust

A trust in which a principal amount is placed in a trust on the death of person A and is transferred...

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Generic

Describes the characteristics and/or experience of the total universe of a coupon of MBS sector type...

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Generic Credit Spread

Refers to the corporate bond spread for a particular credit rating and expiry. For example, 10-year ...

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Genetic Algorithms

Models that optimise rules by mimicking the Darwinian Law of “survival of the fittest”. A set of rul...

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Geographic Risk

Risk that arises when an issuer issues policies concentrated within certain geographic areas, such a...

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Geometric Mean Return

Also called the time-weighted rate of return, a measure of the compound rate of growth of the initia...

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Gestation Repo

A reverse repurchase agreement between mortgage firms and securities dealers. Under the agreement, t...

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Get Hit

Go lower in price, when bids in the stock or market are hit, causing those bids to vanish and be rep...

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Get Out

Used in the context of general equities. Sell interest....

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Ghosting

The illegal practice that one firm drives a stock's price higher or lower, while other conspiring fi...

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Gift

A transfer of an asset such as property or money etc from one person to another where no payment of ...

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