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1. Transporting vessel receiving its cargo. 2. Transportation vessel’s loaded cargo for transport. The cargo’s carrier issues a receipt known as a bill of lading.

Regulations on commercial activities involving trademarks. Federal regulations that ensure trademarks are unique to their users. It intends to reduce consumer confusion seeking to identify well-known goods or services. Also known as

An approach where the last acquired product is the first one out for sale. Refer to first in first out.

Submittal deadline a beneficiary of a letter of credit (L/C) has for required documents to receive the payment. If the L/C has no specified, either the L/C validity date or the date

Statistical observation that any anomaly can be discovered by comparing different or larger samples if the samples from a large group of the test population trend to the group’s characteristics. Also refer

Typically the venture capitalist initiating the deal, acting on behalf of the other investors. Oftentimes it is the partner or investor with the largest share of capital in a syndicated financing arrangement.

Ten underlying economic indicators as a composite index. Individually or combined, their trends predict changes in the economic cycle. Conference Board releases a report on this composite on or around the 20th

Health care, literacy, and per capita income are criteria for the UN designating some of the world’s poorest countries (48 in 1995) as ‘least developed’. Africa, Asia and Pacific, and Haiti have

Sum total of an individual’s legal advantages and disadvantages. Defined as the lawful characteristics and qualities of an entity. An example of these are a person’s age or asset ownership. From this,

For a common cause or in mutual benefit, friendly parties exchange or transfer of goods and services to each other.

Specified number of securities requested out of a new issue as an allotment is detailed in this document.

An allottee-stockholder-shareholder issues this written notification, renouncing or transferring new-issue allotted securities or rights to an issue to other stockholder(s).

Effort in providing service appropriate to satisfy customer needs and desires of clientele the firm wishes to attract and is not a profit killer. Measured amount and kind of service

A note that gives investors a possibility of returns through a coupon. Refer to inverse floating rate note.

In return for transferring a property to the caregiver, one or more persons are guaranteed lifetime care and maintenance, under this arrangement .

Contract between the entity buying the policy, as the insured or policy holder, and a life insurance company, as the insurer.

a port’s cranes and derricks load and offload a containerized cargo ship.

an electronic system that stores and displays information on limit orders and feeds the data to the specialist display book. Orders that are entered as good, until cancelled, remain in the system

The insured pays the entire premium sooner than a traditional model, as set in the policy.