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CONTAINER LOAD

The volume that can be shipped in a container without going over weight. There is a standard measure for this.

CONTESTABLE MARKET

A market that lets entry or exit occur at any time. It has a few businesses in this market leaving room for new members. If some profit is made than more businesses

CONTRA MARKET STOCK

An opposing movement of a stock compared to the general market such as an electric company stock increasing in value during a recession.

CONTRACT EMPLOYEE

A worker who works for a person under a contract. Contract employees are hired for performing definite jobs at a given rate. Contract employees do not add to the regular staff and

CONTRACT NEGOTIATION

Action of two (or more) parties consulting about a possible arrangement of partnership. Their goal is to make an agreement that will be advantageous for all parties involved. Talks may go on

CONTRACT RISK

1. Possibility of loss incurred due to the buyer abrogating the contract, and not because he is unable to pay. 2. Possibility of loss incurred from failure in deal performance. Vendors are

CONVERTIBLE BOND

A hybrid DEBT/EQUITY security that consists of a COUPONbearing BOND and an embedded equity OPTION that allows the investor to convert into a specified number of shares of COMMON STOCK once the

CORRELATION

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two or more variables (such as financial ASSET prices) move in the same direction, or different directions. Correlation is often used to price

COVERED WARRANT

A longdated EQUITY OPTION (i.e., three to five years) issued by a financial intermediary on a company

CROWN JEWEL DEFENSE

An ANTITAKEOVER DEFENSE used by a company seeking to avoid a future HOSTILE TAKEOVER by another company. In the event a hostile takeover is successful the CROWN JEWEL provision in the company

CUTTER NUMBER

An alphanumeric code that is unique by libraries like the Dewey decimal classification to make a call number. The number is in alphabetical order and the authors name. It is named after

CYCLONE

When low barometic pressure and strong winds rotate counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere. The south pacific calls it a cyclone, the western atlantic calls it a hurricane, and the eastern pacific

C CORPORATION (C CORP)

A corporation in the United States that, for Federal income tax purposes, is taxed under and Subchapter C ( et seq.) of Chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code.A C corporation may

CALENDAR YEAR DEDUCTIBLE

The amount that you pay to providers before insurance starts to pay, each calendar year (January 1 to December 31).

CALL NUMBER

A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library materials (books, serials, audiovisual materials, computer files, maps, manuscripts, realia) according to their subject and allocating a call number to that

CALL SPREAD

An OPTION position created by buying and selling CALL OPTIONS with the same expiry date but different STRIKE PRICES (i.e., the purchaser of a call spread buys a closertothemoney call option and

CANNIBALISM

In zoology, cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in

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