A trading house is a business that facilitates monetary transactions between a home country and foreign countries.

A trading book is the portfolio held by a brokerage firm or a bank. 

A balloon loan is a loan that does not fully amortize over time.

Broad money is the method of calculating country's money supply. 

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.

A short call option position where the writer does not own an equivalent position in the underlying security presented by their option contracts.

Green investments are investments which focus on companies or projects committed to the conservation of natural resources, research or implementation of alternative energy sources, clean air and water projects.

Green Monday is the second Monday of December. It is the day when many online shoppers to purchase last-minute Christmas gifts and take full advantage of deals. It is one of the most profitable days of the year for retail sellers.

Real option is a choice available to the managers of a company regarding business investment opportunities.

Real rate of return is the annual percentage return on an investment. It is adjusted for changes due to inflation or other factors. 

Original cost is the price associated with buying of an asset.

An open market is an economic system with no barriers for the free market activity.

Net-net is a value investing technique where a company is valued solely because of its net current assets.

Net premium is the anticipated present value of a policy’s benefits less than expected value of future premiums. 

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.

Reinvestment rate is the amount of interest that can be earned when money is taken out of one and put into another. fixed-income investment 

Reinvestment risk is the possibility that an investor is going to be unable to reinvest cash at a rate of return comparable to the current one.

An indifference curve is a graph that shows a combination of two goods that give a consumer equal satisfaction and making the consumer indifferent to which of these two goods to choose.