Price-taker is a company or an individual who are to accept prevailing prices in a market, lacking the market share to influence market price on their own.

Par can refer to preferred or common stock, bonds or currencies, with different meanings depending on the context. 

Profitability ratios are a class of financial metrics that are used to assess business's ability to create earnings relative to the revenue, operating costs, balance sheet assets, and shareholders' equity over time, using data from a certain point in time.

Pump priming is the action aimed on stimulating an economy during a recessionary period, through government spending and interest rate and tax reductions. 

Petrodollars are U.S. dollars paid to oil exporting country for the sale of the commodity. 

Positive pay is an automated cash-management service aimed at deterring check fraud.

Paga is a mobile app that allows its users transfer money and make payments right through their mobile devices.

Pre-market is the period of trading activity occurring before the regular market hours.

Progressive tax is a tax that imposes a lower tax rate on low-income tax payers compared to those with a higher income. 

Price level is the average of current prices across the entire spectrum of goods and services produced in all of the economy. 

A price ceiling is a fixed maximum price a seller may charge for a product or service. 

A poverty trap is making it very difficult to escape poverty. It is created when an economic system requires a significant amount of capital to escape poverty.

A paper trade is a simulated trade that lest investors practice trading the securities without risking their money. 

Pullback is a pause or drop in a stock or commodities pricing from recent peaks that occurs within a ongoing uptrend. 

Preference shares are shares of a company with dividends which are paid out to shareholders prior to common stock dividends are issued. 

A pitchbook is a sales document created by investment bank that contains the details of the main attributes of the firm. It is used by firm's sales personnel to sell products and services as well as generate new clients.

Private banking is a series of personalized services and products offered to the high-net-worth clients of a retail bank or some other financial institution.

Pooled funds is a term describing a portfolio of money from lots of individual investors that are pooled together for the purposes of investment.

Pink sheets are listings for stocks that trade over-the-counter. These are the companies that are not listed on a major exchange like NYSE or Nasdaq.

Payment for order flow is the payment a brokerage firm gets for directing orders to different parties for execution of a trade.