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Senior security: A security that, in the event of bankruptcy, will be redeemed before any other securities.
Seniority: The order of repayment. In the event of bankruptcy, senior debt must be repaid before subordinated debt is repaid.
Sensitive market: A market that reacts to a great extent to good or bad news.
Sensitivity analysis: Analysis of the effect on a project's profitability of changes in sales, cost, and so on.
Sentiment indicators: The general feeling of investors about the state of the market, such as whether they are bullish or bearish.
SEP: See Also: Simplified Employee Pension plan
Separate customer: Method of allocating insurance by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. Each account that is under the name of a different person or group of people is entitled to maximum protection.
Separate tax returns: Tax returns of married persons who choose to file their returns individually, usually because this approach produces lower overall tax payments.
Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Securities: Long-term notes and bonds divided into principal and interest-paying components, which may be transferred and sold in amounts as small as $1000. STRIPS are sold at auction at a minimum par amount, varying for each issue. The amount is an arithmetic function of the issue's interest rate.
Separation property: The property that portfolio choice can be divided into two independent tasks: (1) Determination of the optimal risky portfolio, which is a purely mathematical problem, and (2) the personal choice of the best mix of the optimal risky portfolio and the risk-free asset, which depends on a person's degree of risk aversion.
Separation theorem: Theory that the value of an investment to an individual is not dependent on consumption preferences. That is, investors will want to accept or reject the same investment projects by using the NPV rule, regardless of personal preference.
SEPP: See Also: Substantially equal periodic payments
Serial bonds: Corporate bonds arranged so that specified principal amounts become due on specified dates. Related: Term bonds.
Serial covariance: The covariance between a variable and the lagged value of the variable; the same as autocorrelation.
Serial entrepreneur: Business person that successfully starts (does not kill) a number of different businesses.
Serial redemption: The redemption of a serial bond.
Series: Options: All options_contract of the same class that also have the same unit of trade, expiration date, and exercise price. Stocks: shares that have common characteristics, such as rights to ownership and voting_rights, dividends, or par value. In the case of many foreign shares, one series may be owned only by citizens of the country in which the stock is registered.
Series bond: Bond that may be issued in several series under the same indenture document.
Series E bond: A local and state tax-free bond issued by the U.S. government from 1941 to 1979, which was then replaced by Series HH bonds.
Series EE bond: See Also: Savings bond
Series HH bond: See Also: Savings bond
Service charge: A component of some finance charges, such as the fee for triggering an overdraft checking account into use.
SES: See Also: Stock Exchange of Singapore
SET: See Also: Securities Exchange of Thailand
Set of contracts perspective: View of corporation as a set of contracting relationships among individuals who have conflicting objectives, such as shareholders or money_manager. The corporation is a legal construct that serves as the nexus for the contracting relationships.

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