Glossary of Stock Market Terms

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Financial Terms By: S
"Send it in"
"Soft" capital rationing
"Static" Return
S
S Corporation
S&P
S&P 500 Composite Index
S&P phenomenon
S&P Rating
SA
SAAR
SACE
Safe harbor
Safe harbor lease
Safekeep
Safety cushion
Safety-net return
SAIF
Salary
Salary freeze
Salary reduction plan
Salary Reduction Simplified Employee Pension Plan (SARSEP)
Sale
Sale and lease-back
Sales charge
Sales completion
Sales Contract
Sales forecast
Sales literature
Sales load
Sales tax
Sales-type lease
Sallie Mae
Salomon Brothers Non-U.S. Dollar World Government Bond Index
Salomon Brothers World Equity Index (SBWEI)
Salvage value
Same-Day Funds Settlement (SDFS)
Same-day substitution
Samurai bond
Samurai market
Santa Claus Rally
Sao Paulo Stock Exchange
SAR
Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002
Saturday night special
SATURNS
SAU
Saucer
Savings account
Savings and loan association
Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF)
Savings bank
Savings bond
Savings deposits
Savings element
Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE) 401(k) plan
Savings rate
SB
SBD
SC
Scalability
Scale
Scale in
Scale order
Scale-enhancing
Scaling
Scalp
Scalping
SCAP
Scattered
Scenario analysis
Schedule 13d
Schedule C
Scheduled cash flows
Scorched-earth policy
SCR
Screen stocks
Scrip
Scripophily
SD
SDD
SDN
SDR
SE
SEAQ
Search costs
Seasonally adjusted
Seasonally adjusted annual rate
Seasoned
Seasoned datings
Seasoned issue
Seasoned new issue
Seat
SEC
SEC fee
Secert Ballot
Second Lien Debt
Second market
Second mortgage lending
Second pass regression
Second round
Second-preferred stock
Second-to-die insurance
Secondary buyout
Secondary distribution/offering
Secondary issue
Secondary market
Secondary mortgage market
Secondary Offering
Secondary reserves
Secondary stocks
Section 16(a)
Section 16(b)
Section 423
Section 482
Section 83(b) Election
Sector
Sector allocation
Sector diversification
Sector fund
Sector rotation
Secular
Secured bond
Secured debt
Securities
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Securities Act of 1933
Securities Acts Amendments of 1975
Securities analysts
Securities and commodities exchanges
Securities and Exchange Commission Rules
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET)
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)
Securities Industry Association (SIA)
Securities Industry Committee on Arbitration (SICA)
Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
Securities loan
Securities markets
Securitization
Security
Security characteristic line
Security deposit (initial)
Security deposit (maintenance)
Security Industry Automated Corporation (SIAC)
Security interest
Security market line
Security market line
Security market plane
Security ratings
Security selection
Security selection decision
SED
Seed money
Seed stage
Seek a market
SEFs
Segmented Market
Segregation of securities
SEHK
Seigniorage
SEK
Select ten portfolio
Selected dealer agreement
Selective hedging
Self Tender
Self-amortizing mortgage
Self-directed IRA
Self-employed income
Self-employment tax
Self-liquidating loan
Self-regulatory organization (SRO)
Self-selection
Self-Similar
Self-supporting debt
Self-tender offer
Sell hedge
Sell limit order
Sell off
Sell order
Sell out
Sell plus order
Sell price
Sell the book
Sell-side analyst
Seller financing
Seller's market
Seller's option
Seller's points
Selling climax
Selling concession
Selling dividends
Selling group
Selling on the good news
Selling short
Selling short against the box
Selling Syndicate
Selling the spread
Selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expenses
Semistrong-form efficiency
SEN
Senior debt
Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices Survey
Senior mortgage bond
Senior refunding
Senior security
Seniority
Sensitive market
Sensitivity analysis
Sentiment indicators
Separate customer
Separate tax returns
Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Securities (STRIPS)
Separation property
Separation theorem
Septendecillion
Septennonagintillion
Septenoctogintillion
Septenquadragintillion
Septenquinquagintillion
Septenseptuagintillion
Septensexagintillion
Septentrigintillion
Septenvigintillion
Septillion
Septuagintillion
Serial bonds
Serial covariance
Serial entrepreneur
Serial redemption
Series
Series bond
Series E bond
Series EE bond
Series HH bond
Service charge
Service life
Set of contracts perspective
Set up
Set-aside
Setoff
Settle price
Settlement
Settlement date
Settlement options
Settlement price
Settlement rate
Settlement risk
Severally but not jointly
Severance
Sexagintillion
Sexdecillion
Sexnonagintillion
Sexoctogintillion
Sexquadragintillion
Sexquinquagintillion
Sexseptuagintillion
Sexsexagintillion
Sextillion
Sextrigintillion
Sexvigintillion
SG
SGD
SGP
SGS
SH
Shadow banking
Shadow calendar
Shadow stock
Shadows
Shakeout
Sham
Shanghai Stock Exchange
Share broker
Share repurchase
Shared Appreciation Mortgage (SAM)
Shareholder
Shareholders' equity
Shareholders' letter
Shares
Shares authorized
Shark repellant
Shark watcher
Sharpe benchmark
Sharpe ratio
Shelf offering
Shelf registration
Shell corporation
Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Shiller, Robert /a>
Shipper's Export Declaration (SED)
Shipping Documents
Shirking
SHN
Shock absorbers
Shogun bond
Shootout
Shop
Shopped stock
Shopping
Short
Short against the box
Short Bias
Short bonds
Short book
Short coupon
Short covering
Short end duration (SEDUR)
Short end of the yield curve
Short exempt
Short hedge
Short interest
Short interest theory
Short position
Short ratio(or short interest ratio)
Short sale
Short selling
Short settlement
Short squeeze
Short straddle
Short tender
Short-Form Registration
Short-run operating activities
Short-sale rule
Short-short test
Short-term
Short-term bond fund
Short-term capital gain
Short-term debt
Short-term financial plan
Short-term gain (or loss)
Short-term interest rates
Short-term investment services
Short-term reserves
Short-term solvency ratios
Short-term tax exempts
Short-term trend
Shortage cost
Shortfall risk
Shout option
Show and tell list
Show me buyer/seller
Show stopper
SHP
Shrinkage
Shut out the book
SI
SIAC
SIC
Side effects
Side-by-side trading
Sidecar
Sidelines
Sideways market
Sight deposit account
Sight draft
Sight Letter of Credit
Signal
Signaling approach
Signaling approach (on dividend policy)
Signature guarantee
Signature loan
Signatures on Proxies
Significant influence
Significant order
Significant order imbalance
Silent partner
Silver Parachutes
SIMEX
SIMFA
Simple compound growth method
Simple interest
Simple IRA
Simple linear regression
Simple linear trend model
Simple moving average
Simple prospect
Simple rate of return
Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plan
Simulation
Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX)
Single European Act
Single life annuity
Single option
Single-buyer policy
Single-country fund
Single-factor model
Single-index model
Single-payment bond
Single-Premium Deferred Annuity (SPDA)
Single-premium life insurance
Single-state municipal bond fund
Sinker
Sinking fund
Sinking fund requirement
SIT
Sit tight
Size
Size out the book
SJ
SJM
SK
Skewed distribution
Skewness
Skill
Skip-day settlement
Skip-payment privilege
SKK
Skort-Swing Transaction
SL
SLB
SLD last sale
SLE
Sleeper
Sleeping beauty
Slippage
SLL
Slump
SLV
SM
Small business policy
Small investor
Small issues exemption
Small Order Execution System (SOES)
Small-cap
Small-capitalization (small cap) stocks
Small-capitalization (small-cap) fund
Small-firm effect
Smart money
SMBS
SMEs
Smidge
Smithsonian Agreement
SMR
SN
Snake
Snowballing
SO
Social Security benefits
Social Security Disability Income Insurance
Socially conscious mutual fund
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT)
SOES
Soft currency
Soft dollars
Soft landing
Soft market
Soft spot
Softs
Sold away
Sold-out market
Sole proprietorship
Solvency
SOM
SOS
Sour bond
Source of funds seller
Sources and applications of funds statement
South African Futures Exchange (SAFEX)
Sovereign risk
Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF)
SOXS
Spaceman (Spacemen)
Span
SPDR
SPDRs
Special arbitrage account
Special assessment bond
Special bid
Special bond account
Special Claim on Residual Equity (SCORE)
Special dividend
Special Drawing Rights (SDR)
Special Meeting
Special-Purpose Entity
Specialist
Specialist block purchase and sale
Specialist market
Specialist unit
Specialist's book
Specialist's short-sale ratio
Specialness
Specific issues market
Specific Return
Specific risk
Spectail
Speculation
Speculative
Speculative demand (for money)
Speculative motive
Speculative stock
Speculative-grade bond
Speculator
Speed
Spider
Spike
Spin-off
Spinning
SPINs
Split
Split commission
Split offering
Split order
Split print
Split rating
Split stock
Split-coupon bond
Split-fee option
Split-rate tax system
SPM
Spoken for
Sponsor
Sponsor loan
Spontaneous Current Liabilities
Spontaneous Liabilities
Spot commodity
Spot exchange rates
Spot futures parity theorem
Spot interest rate
Spot lending
Spot markets
Spot month
Spot price
Spot rate
Spot rate curve
Spot secondary
Spot trade
Spot transaction
Spousal IRA
Spousal remainder trust
Spread
Spread income
Spread option
Spread order
Spread position
Spread strategy
Spreadsheet
Sprinkling trust
SPX
Squeeze
SR
SRB
SRG
SS1
ST
Stability
Stabilization
Stable Paretian, or Fractal Hypothesis
Stag
Stagflation
Staggered board of directors
Staggering maturities
Stagnation
Stakeholders
Stale price
Stale price arbitrage
Stalking horse
Stalking horse bid
Stamp duty
Stamp tax
Stand up to
Stand-alone principle
Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 Index
Standard & Poor's SmallCap 600 Index
Standard deduction
Standard deviation
Standard error
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
Standardized normal distribution
Standardized value
Standby agreement
Standby commitment
Standby fee
Standby letter of credit
Standby letter of credit
Standing
Standstill agreement
Start-up
State and local government series (SLUGs)
State bank
State tax-exempt income fund
State-Build-Own-Operate (SBOO) Approach
Stated annual interest rate
Stated conversion price
Stated maturity
Stated value
Statement billing
Statement of Additional Information (SAI)
Statement of Cash Flows
Statement of condition
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 52
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 8
Statement-of-Cash-Flows Method
Static theory of capital structure
Stationary time series
Statistical Arbitrage
Statistical inference
Statistical tracking error
Statutory debt limit
Statutory investment
Statutory merger
Statutory surplus
Statutory voting
Staying power
STD
Steady state
Steenth
Steepening of the yield curve
Step aside
Step up
Step-down note
Step-up bond
Step-up swap
Sterilization
Sterilized intervention
Sticky deal
Stochastic models
Stochastics index
Stock
Stock ahead
Stock Appreciation Right (SAR)
Stock Appreciation Rights
Stock bonus plan
Stock buyback
Stock certificate
Stock dividend
Stock Exchange Automated Quotation System (SEAQ)
Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK)
Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES)
Stock Exchange of Thailand
Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE)
Stock exchanges
Stock index
Stock Index Future
Stock index option
Stock index swap
Stock insurance company
Stock jockey
Stock list
Stock market
Stock option
Stock power
Stock purchase plan
Stock rating
Stock record
Stock replacement strategy
Stock repurchase
Stock right
Stock selection
Stock split
Stock symbol
Stock ticker
Stock watcher (NYSE)
Stockbroker
Stockholder
Stockholder books
Stockholder equity
Stockholder of record
Stockholder's equity
Stockholder's report
Stockholm Stock Market (Stockholm Bouml;rsen)
Stockout
StockWatch
Stop basis
Stop order (or stop)
Stop payment
Stop Transfer
Stop-limit order
Stop-loss order
Stop-out price
Stopped
Stopped out
Stopping curve
Stopping curve refunding rate
Story stock/bond
Straddle
Straight
Straight Bill of Lading
Straight Discount
Straight term insurance policy
Straight value
Straight voting
Straight-line depreciation
Strange Attractor
Strangle
Strap
Strategic alliance
Strategic buyout
Strategy
Stratified equity indexing
Stratified sampling approach to indexing
Stratified sampling bond indexing
Stray
Street
Street name
Stress test
Strike index
Strike price
Striking price
Striking Price Intercal
Strip
Strip mortgage participation certificate (strip PC)
Stripped bond
Stripped mortgage-backed securities (SMBS)
Stripped yield
Strong Currency
Strong dollar
Strong form of the EMT
Strong-form efficiency
Structural Adjustment Loan Facility (SAL)
Structure
Structured arbitrage transaction
Structured Asset Trust Unit Repackagings
Structured debt
Structured finance
Structured investment vehicle
Structured note
Structured portfolio strategy
Structured product
Structured settlement
Stub
Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA)
Subaccount
Subchapter M
Subchapter S
Subject
Subject market
Subject to a (NY) can
Subject to a print/execution/trading
Subject to opinion
Subjective probabilities
Subordinated
Subordinated bonds
Subordinated debenture bond
Subordinated debt
Subordination clause
Subpart F
Subperiod return
Subprime lending
Subprime market
Subprime mortgage
Subrogation
Subscription
Subscription agreement
Subscription price
Subscription privilege
Subscription right
Subscription warrant
Subsidiary
Subsidized financing
Substantially equal periodic payments (SEPP)
Substitute sale
Substitution swap
Success tax
Suicide pill
Suitability
Suitability rules
Suitable
Sum-of-the-years'-digits depreciation
Summary plan description (SPD)
Sunk costs
Sunrise industries
Super Bowl indicator
Super DOT
Super Majority
Super message
Super sinker bond
Super Sovereign
Superangels
Supermajority
Supermajority amendment
Supervisory analyst
Supervisory board
Supervisory Capital Assessment Program
Supplemental Security Income
Supplier credit
Supply risk
Supply shock
Supply-side economics
Support
Support level
SUR
Surcharge
Surety
Surplus funds
Surplus management
Surtax
Surveillance department of exchanges
Survivorship bias
Sushi bond
Suspended trading
Suspense account
Sustainable growth rate
SV
SVC
SVK
SVN
Swap
Swap arrangements
Swap assignment
Swap book
Swap buy back
Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs)
Swap fund
Swap option
Swap rate
Swap reversal
Swap sale
Swaption
SWE
Sweat equity
Swedish FSA
Sweep
Sweep account
Sweetener
SWF
SWIFT
Swing Trading
Swingline facility
Swiss Electronic Bourse (EBS)
Swiss Exchange
Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange (SOFFEX)
Swissy
Switch order
Switching
Switching options
SWZ
SY
SYC
Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE)
Symbol
Symbol book special
Symmetric cash matching
Synchronous data
Syndicate
Syndicate manager
Syndicated Eurocredit loans
Syndicated Loan
Syndication
Synergistic effect
Synergy
Synthetic convertible
Synthetic forward position
Synthetic Lease
Synthetic put
Synthetic stock
Synthetics
SYP
SYR
System Noise
Systematic
Systematic investment plan
Systematic Return
Systematic risk
Systematic risk principle
Systematic withdrawal plan
Systemic Risk
Systems theory
SZ
SZL
Stablecoin