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EAFE Index The Europe, Australia, and Far East Index, from Mo... Add a comment 0
Earnout An arrangement in which sellers of a business may ... Add a comment 0
EASD (European Association of Securities Dealers) An association of securities houses, investment ba... Add a comment 0
EBIT Earnings before interest and taxes a financial me... Add a comment 0
EBITDA Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and ... Add a comment 0
ECB : European Central Bank Institute charged to lead the monetary policy of t... Add a comment 0
EDGAR See `Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retr... Add a comment 0
EEOC U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.... Add a comment 0
Effective Date (USA) The date of the SEC order declaring the regi... Add a comment 0
Effective Par The par value for preferred stock that would ordin... Add a comment 0
EIC (USA) Earned Income Tax Credit.... Add a comment 0
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (USA) The SEC’s system required to be used since 1... Add a comment 0
EMI (UK) Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI) - Comp... Add a comment 0
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (USA) The Employee Retirement Income Security Act ... Add a comment 0
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) (USA) A plan established by a company for the allo... Add a comment 0
Employee Stock Purchase Plan A plan under which key employees are given the rig... Add a comment 0
Employee Stock Repurchase Agreement An arrangement in which a corporation sells stock ... Add a comment 0
ERISA See `Employee Retirement Income Security Act’. ... Add a comment 0
ESOP See `Employee Stock Ownership Plan’ . ... Add a comment 0
EURIBOR : European Interbank Offered Rate Daily indicator representing the arithmetic mean o... Add a comment 0
EURO.NM A pan-European grouping of regulated markets dedic... Add a comment 0
Euroclear Euroclear is an international clearing organisatio... Add a comment 0
EURONEXT The name of the entity expected to result from the... Add a comment 0
European Option See `European-style Option’. ... Add a comment 0
European-style Option An option which can only be exercised for a short,... Add a comment 0
EVCA (European Venture Capital Association) An association formed to promote and facilitate Eu... Add a comment 0
Exemption or Exempt from Registration (USA) An exemption from the statutory requirement ... Add a comment 0
EXERCISABLE options can now be exercised on payment of money... Add a comment 0
Exercise As a verb, to use the right to purchase shares at ... Add a comment 0
Exercise Price The price at which shares that are subject to a st... Add a comment 0
EXERCISED the shares have been bought... Add a comment 0
Exit Strategy The method by which an investor anticipates liquid... Add a comment 0
Expense Allowance An amount paid by the issuer of a security to an u... Add a comment 0
Expiration Commonly used term in the US to discuss the last d... Add a comment 0
EXPIRED have come to an end, become void, reached expiry... Add a comment 0
Expiry The termination of option rights. Meaning to have ... Add a comment 0
ExSOP or ExSOP Award "Executive (or employee) Shared ownership Plan - t... Add a comment 0


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