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G
Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the issue is the first convertible bond of the company.
GA
The ISO 3166 country code for GABON.
GAAP
See: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
Gadfly
A nickname for a "professional" securityholder who owns stock in various companies, attends annual meetings and asks senior management hard and often embarrassing questions.
Gaijin
Japanese term used to describe a non-Japanese investor in Japan (outside person). A more polite version of the same word is gaikokujin which means outside country person.
Gain
A profit on a securities transaction recognized by selling a security for more than the security originally cost. The gain is the difference between the cost and the sale.
Gamma
The ratio of a change in the option delta to a small change in the price of the asset on which the option is written.
Gap
Financing that is required, but for which no provision has been made. The difference in total funding needed for a proposal and the amount of funding already made available.
Gap opening
In the context of general equities, opening price that is substantially higher or lower than the previous day's closing price, usually because of some extraordinarily positive or negative news.
Garage
The floor of the NYSE, which is situated on the north side of the main trading floor.
Garbatrage
Rising stock prices and increased market activity in an entire sector caused by a psychology change stemming from a major takeover involving two companies in the sector. Speculators feel other takeovers are likely in the sector. See: Rumortrage.
Garman-Kohlhagen option pricing model
A model widely used to price foreign currency options.
Gather in the stops
A market strategy in which investors sell stocks to drive prices to a level that breaks through stop orders known to exist. Once the price is low enough, the stop orders become market_order and are executed, to create snowballing.
Gaussian
A system whose probabilities are well described by the normal distribution, or bell shaped curve.
GB
The ISO 3166 country code for UNITED KINGDOM.
GBP
Pound Sterling currency
GBP
The ISO 4217 currency code for the United Kingdom Pound.
GD
The ISO 3166 country code for GRENADA.
GDP
See: Gross Domestic Product
GDP implicit price deflator
An economic technique used to account for inflation by comparing the current-dollar gross domestic product GDP to >constant-dollar GDP as a ratio. The ratio accounts for price changes of goods and services that make up GDP and changes in the composite of GDP.
GE
The ISO 3166 country code for GEORGIA.
Gearing
Financial leverage.
GEM (growing equity mortgage)
Mortgage in which annual increases in monthly payments are used to reduce outstanding principal and to shorten the term of the loan.
General account
Federal Reserve Board's term for a margin account provided to a customer by a brokerage firm. Governed by Regulation T of the FED.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
A treaty adopted by the United Nations aimed at elimination of international trade barriers between member countries.
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