Glossary of Stock Market Terms

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Financial Terms By: W
W
W-8
W-9
W-type bottom
WACC
Wage assignment
Wage-push inflation
Waiting period
Waiver of premium
Walk away
Wall Street
Wall Street analyst
Wallflower
Wallpaper
Wanted for cash
War babies
War chest
War Risk Insurance
War room
Warehouse receipt
Warehousing
Warrant
Warranty
Warsaw Stock Exchange
Wash
Wash sale
Wasting asset
Watch list
Watered stock
Waybill
Weak dollar
Weak market
Weak-form efficiency
Wealth effect
WEBS
Wedge
Weekend effect
Weight
Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
Weighted average Coupon
Weighted average life
Weighted average maturity
Weighted average portfolio yield
Weighted average remaining maturity
Well-diversified portfolio
West Texas Intermediate
WF
When distributed
When issued (W.I.)
Whipsawed
Whisper number or forecast
Whisper stock
Whistle blower
White knight
White Noise
White sheets
White squire
White's rating
White-shoe firm
Whitemail
Whole life insurance
Whole loan
Wholesale mortgage banking
Wholesaler
Wholly owned subsidiary
Whoops
WI
WI WI
Wide opening
Widow-and-orphan stock
Wiener Bouml;rse (Austrian Stock Exchange)
Wild card option
Williams Act
Wilshire indexes
Wind bond
Windfall profit
Window
Window contract
Window dressing
Window period
Winner's curse
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange
Wire house
Wire room
Wire stripping
Wire transfer
With Average (W.A.)
With dividend
With ice
With Particular Average (WPA)
With rights
Withdrawal plan
Withholding
Withholding tax
Without
Without recourse
Without Recourse Financing
WLF
Woody
Working
Working away
Working capital
Working capital management
Working capital ratio
Working control
Working order
Workout
Workout market
Workout period
World Bank
World Equity Benchmark Series (WEBS)
World investible wealth
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Wrap account
Wraparound
Wraparound annuity
Wraparound mortgage
Wrinkle
Write
Write out
Write-down
Write-off
Writer
Writing cash-secured puts
Writing naked
Writing puts to acquire stock
Written-down value
Wrong-way risk
WS
WSM
WST
WTI