Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
Short-Swing Profit Rule — A Securities Exchange Commission regulation that requires company insiders to return any profits made from the purchase and sale of company stock if both transactions occur within a six month period. A company insider, as determined by the rule,… … Investment dictionary
short-swing profit — A profit made on the sale of securities held for only a short time after purchase … Ballentine's law dictionary
Swing trading — is commonly defined as a speculative activity in financial markets whereby instruments such as stocks, indexes, bonds, currencies, or commodities are repeatedly bought or sold at or near the end of up or down price swings caused by price… … Wikipedia
Short (finance) — Schematic representation of short selling in two steps. The short seller borrows shares and immediately sells them. He then waits, hoping for the stock price to decrease, when the seller can profit by purchasing the shares to return to the lender … Wikipedia
swing — ▪ I. swing swing 1 [swɪŋ] verb swung PTandPP [swʌŋ] [intransitive, transitive] to change from one level, rate, or position to another so that a situation is the opposite of what it was before: • If the economy swings from recession into recovery … Financial and business terms
Swing Time (1936 film) — Infobox Film | name = Swing Time caption = Swing Time theatrical poster director = George Stevens producer = Pandro S. Berman writer = Erwin S. Gelsey (story Portrait of John Garnett) Howard Lindsay Allan Scott starring = Fred Astaire Ginger… … Wikipedia
Clarence Profit — Clarence Profit(born June 26, 1912 in New York City; died October 22, 1944 in NYC) was a jazz pianist and composer associated with swing. He came from a musical family and began studying piano at age three and led a ten piece band in New York… … Wikipedia
Section 16(b) — Provision of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that requires that any profit realized by a company insider from the purchase and sale, or sale and purchase, of the company s equity securities within a period of less than six months must be… … Financial and business terms
japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… … Universalium
Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… … Universalium
