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A la Criee * A/B Structure * Abandonment * Abschlag * Absolute Call Privilege * Absolute Market Risk * Absolute Priority Rule (APR) * Absolute Rate * Absolute Risk * Absolute Swap Yield * Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS) * Accelerated Depreciation * Acceleration Covenant * Accounting Risk * Accounting Standards Board (ASB) * Accounts Payable Turnover Ratio * Accounts Receivable Turnover Ratio * Accredited Investor * Accreting Principal Swap (APS) * Accretion Bond Index Range Note * Accretion Directed (AD) Bond * Accrual Bond * Accrual Note * Accrual Swap * Accrued Interest * Accumulated Benefit Obligation (ABO) * Accumulation Swap * Acid Test Ratio * Act of God Bond * Action * Active Manager * Actual Rate Swap * Actuals * Actuarial Rate * Actuary * Add-On * Add-On Yield * Adjustable Long-term Puttable Securities (ALPS) * Adjustable Rate Convertible Debt * Adjustable Rate Instrument * Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) * Adjustable Rate Note * Adjustable Rate Preferred Stock (ARPS) * Adjustable Tender Securities * Adjusted Duration * Adjusted Futures Price * Adjusted Strike Price or Adjusted Exercise Price * Adjustment Swap * Administrative Law * Admitted Assets * Advance Contract * Advance Corporation Tax (ACT) * Advance Decline Ratio * Advance Guarantee * Advance Pricing Agreement * Advance Refunding * After-Acquired Clause * After-Market * Against Actuals (AA) * Agency Costs * Agency Relationship * Aggregate Exercise Price * Aggregation * Agio * Agioteur * Agreement Corporation * Agreement Value * Algorithm * Alligator Spread * All-In Cost * All-In Premium * All-Ordinaries Share Price Riskless Index Notes (A * All-or-Nothing Option * Allotment * Alpha * Alphabet Stock * Alternative Currency Option * Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) * Alternative Option * American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) * American Exchange Rate Quotation Convention * American Option * American Window * Americus Trust * Amortization * Amortizing Cap * Amortizing Collar * Amortizing Instrument * Amortizing Interest Rate Swap * Amortizing Option * Amortizing Swap * Amount at Risk * Analytic Model * Analytical * Anchoring * Annualization * Annuity * Annuity Bond or Note * Annuity Swap * Anomaly * Anticipatory Hedge * Anti-Crash Warrant * Antidilution Clause * Application * Appraisal * Appraisal Ratio * Appreciating Swap * Appropriate Person * Arbitrage * Arbitrage Bond * Arbitrage Free * Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) * Arithmetic Average * Arizona Stock Exchange * Arkansas Best v. Commission, 485 U.S. 212 (1988) * Arrangement Fee * Arrearage * Arrears Swap * Arrow-Debreu Security * Artificial Neural Network * Asian Option * Asked Price * Asset Allocation * Asset Class * Asset Manager * Asset Risk Management * Asset Swap * Asset Turnover Ratio * Asset/Liability Gap * Asset/Liability Management * Asset/Liability Management Committees (ALCOs) * Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) * Asset-Backed Security (ABS) * Asset-Based Swap * Asset-or-Nothing Option * Assign * Assignment * Assumed Rate of Return * Asymmetric Payoff * Asymmetrical Margining Agreement * As-You-Like Warrant * At the Money * Atlantic Option * At-Market Swap * Auction Market Preferred Stock (AMPS) * Auction Rate Note * Auction Rate Preferred Stock (ARPS) * Audit * Aufgeld * Authorized Futures and Option Funds (AFOFs) * Authorized Unit Trust * Auto-Correlation * Automated Pit Trading (APT) * Automatic Cash-Out Call * Automatic Exercise * Automatically Convertible Enhanced Security (ACES) * Auto-Quote System * Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (AR * Auto-Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) Models * Average Downside Magnitude * Average Price of an Option * Average Price or Rate Option (APO, ARO) * Average Price System (APS) * Average Rate Cap * Average Strike Rate Option (ASRO) * Avoir Fiscal * Axe

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