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Revised: 8/28/01. Bulldog bonds.

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Revised: 8/28/01. Bulldog bonds.

Revised: 7/28/00. CUSIP, CUSIP number, equivalent, equivalent martingale measure, martingale, martingale measure, measure, probability measure, random variable, 7/28/00. 3-1 ARM. Revised: 6/28/00. boolean trades, Green Shoe option. Revised: 5/28/00. BISTRO, Chase Secured Loan Trust Note (CSLT). Revised: 4/28/00. concentration risk, super replication, variance swap, volatility convexity, weather derivatives, zeta.

Revised: 11/28/99. back months, blank check company, deck, ECN, fading a big dog, floor broker, floor trader, front months, loan participation fund, pooling of interests, project financing, purchase method, 50 at 7, 6 bid at 7, 6 for 50. Revised: 9/28/99. alpha, derivative, derivative product, Edge corporation, Sharpe ratio, vanna, vomma, ZENS, 1978 International Banking Act. Revised: 7/28/99. currency swap, scalping, trading post, T+1, value date, 1M, 2M, ... Revised: 6/28/99. car, carry trade, clean price, dirty price, money market rates, stress test, yard. Revised: 5/28/99. Continuation structure, derivative products company, DPC, overnight rate, spot rate, termination structure, tom/next rate. Revised: 3/28/99. Commission Bancaire, overnight, spot date, spot/next, tom/next. Revised: 2/28/99. Domestic market, external market, foreign market, internal market, Matador market, Rembrandt market, Samurai market, Yankee market. Revised: 1/28/99. Discount rate, Euribor, Euro LIBOR, Lombard rate, Lombard loan, real option, rediscount credit.

Revised: 11/28/98. Bankruptcy futures, cabinet trade, Pfandbriefe, Pfandbriefe (Jumbo), Pfandbriefe (Public). Revised: 9/28/98. ECB, European Central Bank, non deliverable forward, TED spread, vulnerable options. Revised: 8/28/98. Credit-linked note, credit option, credit option on Brady bonds (COBRA), credit spread, credit spread option, credit spread swap, credit swap, total return option, total return swap. Revised: 7/28/98. Eurojunk, OATS, Obligations Assimilables du Trésor, Section 215, SPOOs, VIX.

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Derivatives DictionaryTM Last revised: 03/02/02

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