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Daily Average Revenue Trades DARTs
Total revenue trades in a period divided by the number of trading days during that period.
Financial Term
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DEA Drug Enforcement Administration
Drug Enforcement Administration, the United States federal government agency responsible for enforcement of drugs regulated by the FDA.
Health Care Term
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Debt Coverage Ratio
A financial strength ratio that measures a companys ability to repay its debt. Debt Coverage Ratio above 1 indicates the company is able to repay its debt within one year. Debt Coverage Ratio at 0.25 indicates the company is able to repay 25% of its debt within one year. The higher the number, the stronger the financial position of the company. Debt Coverage Ratio Formula = (Ebitda / Debt)
Fundamental Analysis
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Debt to Equity Ratio
A financial strength ratio that measures proportion of companys Debt to Stockholders Equity. Debt to Equity Ratio displays companys indebtedness and the leverage of Stockholders Equity. The number indicates how much company owes of total Debt for one dollar of stockholders equity. The lower the number, the stronger the balance sheet of the company. Debt to Equity Ratio Formula = (Debt / Stockholde
Fundamental Analysis
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Deductible
The amount of loss that an insured retains.
Insurance Term
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Defensive Instruments
include high quality fixed income securities and money market instruments. Investors will use temporary defensive instruments in response to adverse market, economic, political or other conditions. When investors takes a defensive position, it may miss out on investment opportunities that could have resulted from investing in accordance with its principal investment strategy. As a result, investor
Financial Term
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Deferred Acquisition Costs
Primarily commissions and premium-related taxes that vary with, and are primarily related to, the production of new contracts and are deferred and amortized to achieve a matching of revenues and expenses when reported in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
Insurance Term
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Deficiency
With regard to reserves for a given liability, a deficiency exists when it is estimated or determined that the reserves are insufficient to pay the ultimate settlement value of the related liabilities. Where the deficiency is the result of an estimate, the estimated amount of deficiency (or even the finding of whether or not a deficiency exists) may change as new information becomes available.
Insurance Term
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Deflation
What is Deflation? Deflation is constant decline in general level of prices, usually attributed to contraction of available money and credit. When the volume of money declines but quantity of products and services remain unchanged or decline on the lower level, results are higher lower prices (Deflation). Deflation is measured with CPI on the retail level and with PPI on the Wholesale level The Co
Economy Term
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Deposit Margin
Represents net interest income expressed as a percentage of average deposits.
Financial Term
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Depriciation
A charge against the companys earnings that allocates the cost of property, plant and equipment over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Statement of Income
Financial Term
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Derivative
A financial instrument or other contract, the price of which is directly dependent upon the value of one or more underlying securities, interest rates or any agreed upon pricing index. Derivatives cover a wide assortment of financial contracts, including forward contracts, options and swaps.
Financial Term
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Development well
A well drilled into a known producing formation in a previously discovered field.
Energy Term
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Dewpoint
A specific temperature and pressure at which hydrocarbons condense to form a liquid.
Energy Term
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Diagnostic
Pertaining to the determination of the nature or cause of a disease or condition. Also refers to reagents or procedures used in diagnosis to measure proteins in a clinical sample.
Health Care Term
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Dialysis
is the process of cleaning wastes from the blood artificially. This job is normally done by the kidney and liver.
Health Care Term
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Digital
A form of transmission where data is represented by a series of bits or discrete values such as 0 and 1.
Manufacturing Term
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Diluted Net EPS
The companys earnings divided by the average number of shares outstanding for the period, giving effect to assumed dilution from outstanding stock options and restricted stock units. Earnings per Share
Financial Term
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Diode
A semiconductor that allows currents to flow in one direction only. Semiconductors Industry
Manufacturing Term
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Direct investment
Investment in which a resident of one country obtains a lasting interest in, and a degree of influence over, the management of a business enterprise in another country. In the United States, the criterion used to distinguish direct investment from other types of investment is ownership of at least 10 percent of the voting securities of an incorporated business enterprise or an equivalent ownership
Economy Term
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Direct Written Premiums
The amounts charged by an insurer to insureds in exchange for coverages provided in accordance with the terms of an insurance contract. The amounts exclude the impact of all reinsurance premiums, either assumed or ceded.
Insurance Term
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Discontinued Operations
A component of an entity that is classified as held-for-sale or that has been disposed of from ongoing operations in its entirety or piecemeal, and for which the entity will not have any significant, continuing involvement. A discontinued operation may be a separate major business segment, a component of a major business segment or a geographical area of operations of the entity that can be separa
Financial Term
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Discount Revenue Credit Card
Represents revenue earned from fees charged to merchants with whom the Company has entered into a card acceptance agreement for processing cardmember transactions. The discount fee generally is deducted from the Companys payment reimbursing the merchant for cardmember purchases. Such amounts are reduced by contra- revenue such as payments to third-party card issuing partners, cash-back reward cost
Financial Term
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Discrete Semiconductors
Unlike integrated circuits, which contain up to tens of millions of transistors, discrete semiconductors are single devices, usually with two terminals (diodes) or three terminals (transistors). These are either applied as peripheral components on printed circuit boards, or used for special purposes such as very high power applications. Semiconductors Industry
Manufacturing Term
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Distillates
Primarily diesel fuel, kerosene and jet fuel.
Energy Term
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Distribution Fees
fees used to support the Funds marketing and distribution efforts, such as compensating financial professionals and other financial intermediaries, advertising and promotion.
Financial Term
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Dividends
Payments in cash, made by corporations to stockholders.
Economy Term
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DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
a nucleic acid that carries the genetic information in the cell and is capable of self-replication and synthesis of RNA, which determines protein synthesis and the transmission of genetic information.
Health Care Term
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Dopamine
A monoamine C8H11NO2 that is a decarboxylated form of dopa and that occurs especially as a neurotransmitter in the brain.
Health Care Term
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Double-Blind Clinical Trial
Clinical trials in which neither the patient nor the physician know if the patient received the experimental treatment or a control/placebo.
Health Care Term
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Downstream
The refining and marketing of crude oil and its associated products (gasoline, jet fuel, diesel) and the production of various petrochemicals derived from crude oil.
Energy Term
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Drop Ship Retail
When a manufacturer drops a shipment off at a customers site, although a retailer makes the sale.
Economy Term
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Drug
Any substance or mixture of substances manufactured, sold or represented for use in the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of a disease, disorder or abnormal physical state, or its symptoms, in human beings or animals.
Health Care Term
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Drug Candidate
A compound that has been selected for further development as a new drug.
Health Care Term
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Dry hole
A well drilled and found to be incapable of producing hydrocarbons in sufficient quantities such that proceeds from the sale of production exceed expenses and taxes.
Energy Term
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Dry Mortgage Loan
A Mortgage Loan for which Buyer or its Custodian has possession of the related Mortgage Loan Documents, in a form and condition acceptable to Buyer, prior to the payment of the Purchase Price.
Financial Term
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Dth
Decatherms or ten therms. One dth equals one million Btu or approximately one Mcf. Therm = 100,000 Btu (approximately 100 cubic feet) One British thermal unit - a measure of the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a one-pound mass of water one degree Fahrenheit at sea level.
Energy Term
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Dthe
Decatherms of natural gas equivalents Oil and NGL volumes are converted to natural gas equivalents using the ratio of one barrel of crude oil, condensate or NGL to 6,000 cubic feet of natural gas. Decatherms or ten therms. One dth equals one million Btu or approximately one Mcf. Therm = 100,000 Btu (approximately 100 cubic feet) One British thermal unit - a measure of the amount of energy required
Energy Term
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Due Diligence
A research conducted prior business transaction (investment, a corporate acquisition or merger). This includes analysing financial records, assets for sale and evaluation all of risks affecting that business transaction. The process of research are done by buyer, seller or third party (as an accounting or law firm) on behalf of buyer or seller. Seller could also conduct investigation of buyers abi
Financial Term
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Durable Goods
Tangible products that can be stored or inventoried and that have an average life of at least three years.
Economy Term
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_Drop
for table games, the sum of markers exchanged for chips at the table, plus cash deposited in the table drop box. For slot machines, the amount of coins and bank notes in the drop box, plus any electronic money transfers made to the slot machine through the use of a cashless wagering system. Hotels & Leisure Industry
Hotel & Leisure Term
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