Terms beginning with W

• WACC
  See weighted average cost of capital....(Read more)
• Waiting Period
  The period after a company prospectus has been filed but prior to the IPO date, and during which contacts with investors are limited. In ins...(Read more)
• Waiver Of Premium
  This is used to continue the policy in the event of becoming disabled or ill, and unable to work for longer than (usually) six months. The i...(Read more)
• Warehousing
  A process in which a number of investors each buy shares in a company. Yet each keeps their individual holding below a level at which notifi...(Read more)
• Warrant
  

  Warrants are securities issued by a company (often an investment trust) which give their owners the right to purchase shares in the compa...(Read more)

• Warrant Bond
  A bond with an attached warrant giving the right to buy shares in the company in the future....(Read more)
• Warrant Premium
  The warrant premium measures the extra cost incurred by buying a warrant and exercising the warrant into the shares, over simply buying the ...(Read more)
• Warranty
  An agreement between a seller and a buyer in which the former agrees to put right any faulty workmanship or product failure occurring within...(Read more)
• Wash Sales
  A process in which simultaneous purchases and sales are made in the same commodity futures contract, on the same exchange, and in the same m...(Read more)
• Wasting Asset
  An asset with a limited expected useful life with a decreasing value over time....(Read more)
• Weak Market
  A stock market where volume is low and the spread is high....(Read more)
• Weather Derivatives
  A financial instrument used by companies to reduce the risks associated with adverse or unexpected weather....(Read more)
• Wedding Insurance
  Insurance to give protection against financial loss in relation to a wedding. Items typically covered include costs arising out of unavoidab...(Read more)
• Wedge
  A technical analysis term used to describe a chart on which lines that connect tops and bottoms converge towards each other but are both mov...(Read more)
• Weekend Effect
  A theory of stock market growth, claiming that traders optimism normally fades between Friday and Monday....(Read more)