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General Obligation Bond
A municipal bond whose interest and principal payments are supported by the full faith and credit of...
General Order
A penalty imposed on imported goods that are not promptly cleared through customs....
General Partner
A participant who has unlimited liability for the obligations of a partnership....
General Partnership
A partnership in which all participants are general partners....
General Revenue
The sum of taxes, charges, and miscellaneous income taken in at the state and local level while negl...
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
The overall conventions, rules, and procedures that define accepted accounting practice at a particu...
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...
Generic
Describes the characteristics and/or experience of the total universe of a coupon of MBS sector type...
Generic Credit Spread
Refers to the corporate bond spread for a particular credit rating and expiry. For example, 10-year ...
Genetic Algorithms
Models that optimise rules by mimicking the Darwinian Law of “survival of the fittest”. A set of rul...
Geographic Risk
Risk that arises when an issuer issues policies concentrated within certain geographic areas, such a...
Geometric Mean Return
Also called the time-weighted rate of return, a measure of the compound rate of growth of the initia...
Gestation Repo
A reverse repurchase agreement between mortgage firms and securities dealers. Under the agreement, t...
Get Hit
Go lower in price, when bids in the stock or market are hit, causing those bids to vanish and be rep...
Ghosting
The illegal practice that one firm drives a stock's price higher or lower, while other conspiring fi...
Gift
A transfer of an asset such as property or money etc from one person to another where no payment of ...



