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TRUE CAPACITY

Actual capacity of a machine, factory, process or production line to generate output under given constraints of material availability and a sustainable speed.

TRUNCATION

1. Accounting. Leaving off digits that lie to right of a decimal point. 2. Banking. Shortening processing time of cheques. 3. Computing. Cutting off the last string number as it is too

ULTIMATE LOAD

Load of the absolute maximum a structure can bear without it failing.

ULTRAVIOLET (UV) RAYS

Solar radiation that is invisible lying just beyond the violet end of a visible spectrum. Wavelength from 10 to 400 nanometres that harms living tissue.

TRADING RANGE

1. Commodities trading. Maximum and minimum limit set by an exchange where a commodity price is allowed to fluctuate on a trading day. 2. Securities trading. Spread from the low and high

UNDERPERFORM

Analyst rate of a security that reflects opinion that its will stay behind the market.

UNDERVALUED

A security with a price expected to rise due to it trading lower than is justified by its estimated and current earnings. See Bottom fishing; Value investing.

UNEARNED REVENUE

Payment that is received before a service is provided or a good is sold.

UNDERINSURED

Person without adequate cover for a loss or a damage or who cannot meet a requirement of co-insurance.

UNDERWEIGHT

Situation that has arisen when a portfolio’s investment are lower in proportion to the financial market’s share of capitalisation. Opposite of overweight.

UNDERWRITING SYNDICATE

Underwriter’s group existing temporarily and banks formed for marketing new bonds or shares that is too big for one body to handle it. Also known as underwriting group.

UNCOLLECTIBLE

A thing unable to be collected after all efforts have been made.

UNDIVIDED ACCOUNT

Underwriting syndicate where each member has dual liability. See divided account.

UNDERINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE

Section of an automobile insurance policy covering damage caused by another insured motorist with insufficient money to pay damages.

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