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S.B.I.C.
S.D.R.
S.E.A.Q.
S.E.C.
S.E.H.K.
S.I.A.C.
S.I.C.
S.I.M.E.X.
S.M.B.S.
S.O.E.S.
S.W.I.F.T.
Safe harbor
Safe harbor lease
Safekeep
Safety cushion
Safety-net return
Sale and lease-back
Sales charge
Sales forecast
Sales-type lease
Salvage value
Samurai bond
Samurai market
Saturday night special
Savings and Loan association
Savings deposits
Scale
Scale enhancing
Scale in
Scale order
Scalp
Scattered
Scenario analysis
Scheduled cash flows
Scorched-earth policy
Search costs
Seasonally adjusted
Seasoned
Seasoned datings
Seasoned issue
Seasoned new issue
Second pass regression
Secondary distribution/offering
Secondary issue
Secondary market
Section 482
Sector
Secured debt
Financial instruments & Exchange Commission (S.E.C.)
Financial instruments analysts
Securitization
security
security characteristic line
security deposit (initial)
security deposit (maintenance)
security Industry Automated Company (S.I.A.C.)
security market line
security market plane
security selection
security selection decision
Self-liquidating loan
Self-selection
Seller's option
Sell hedge
Selling group
Selling short
Sell limit order
Sell off
Sell plus order
Sell-side analyst
Sell the book
Semi-strong form efficiency
Senior debt
Seniority
Sensitivity analysis
Separation property
Separation theorem
Serial bonds
Serial covariance
Series
Series bond
Set of contracts perspective
Settlement
Settlement date
Settlement price
Settlement rate
Settlement risk
Set up
Shadow security
Shareholders
Shareholders' equity
Shareholders' letter
Share repurchase
Shares
Shark repellant
Shark watcher
Sharpe benchmark
Sharpe ratio
Shelf offering
Shelf registration
Shirking
Shogun bond
Shop
Shopped security
Shopping
Short
Shortage cost
Short bonds
Short book
Short covering
Short exempt
Shortfall risk
Short hedge
Short interest
Short position
Short ratio(or short interest ratio)
Short-run operating activities
Short sale
Short selling
Short settlement
Short squeeze
Short straddle
Short-term financial plan
Short-term investment services
Short-term solvency ratios
Short-term tax exempts
Show & tell list
Show me buyer/seller
Shut out the book
Standard Industrial Classification (S.I.C.)
Side effects
Sidelines
Sight draft
Singapore International Monetary Exchange (S.I.M.E.X.)
Simple prospect
Single country fund
Single factor model
Single index model
Signal
Signaling approach
Signaling view (on dividend policy)
Simple compound growth method
Simple interest
Simple linear regression
Simple linear trend model
Simple moving average
Simulation
Single-index model
Single-payment bond
Single-premium deferred annuity
Sinker
Sinking fund requirement
Sit tight
Size
Size out the book
Skewed distribution
Skewness
Skip-day settlement
Sleeper
Sleeping beauty
Slippage
Small-company effect
Small issues exemption
Small Order Execution System (S.O.E.S.)
Smidge
Smithsonian agreement
Snowballing
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (S.W.I.F.T.)
Soft currency
Soft dollars
Sold away
Sole proprietorship
Source of funds seller
Sovereign risk
Span
SPDRs
Special dividend
Special drawing rights (S.D.R.)
Specialist
Specialist's book
Specialist market
Specific issues market
Specific risk
Spectail
Speculative demand (for money)
Speculative grade bond
Speculative motive
Speculator
Speed
Spider
Spike
Spin-off
Split
Split-fee option
Split print
Split-rate tax system
Split security
Spoken for
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
Spread
Spread Betting
Spread income
Spreadsheet
Spread strategy
Spread Trading
SPX
SS1
Staggered Board of Directors
Stakeholders
Stamp duty
Stand-alone principle
S&P
Standard deviation
Standard error
Standardized normal distribution
Standardized value
Standby agreement
Standby fee
Standing
Standstill agreements
Stand up to
Stated annual interest rate
Stated conversion price
Stated maturity
Statement billing
Statement of Cash Flows
Statement-of-Cash-Flows method
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 8
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 52
Static theory of capital structure
Statistical tracking error
Statutory surplus
Steady state
Steenth
Steepening of the yield curve
Step aside
Step-up
Step-up bond
Sterilized intervention
Stochastic models
security ahead
security dividend
Stock Exchanges
Stock Exchange Automated Quotation System (S.E.A.Q.)
Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (S.E.H.K.)
Stockholder's books
Stockholder's equity
Stockholder equity
security index option
security index
Stockmarket
security option
Stockout
security replacement strategy
security repurchase
security right
security selection
security split
security ticker
Stop basis
Stop-limit order
Stop-loss order
Stop order (or stop)
Stopped
Stopping curve
Stopping curve refunding rate
Straddle
Straight
Straight line depreciation
Straight value
Straight voting
Stratified equity indexing
Stratified sampling approach to indexing
Stratified sampling bond indexing
Stray
Street
Street name
Strike index
Strike price
Strip mortgage participation certificate (strip PC)
Stripped bond
Stripped mortgage-backed financial instruments (S.M.B.S.s)
Stripped yield
Strip
Strong-form efficiency
Structured arbitrage transaction
Structured debt
Structured portfolio strategy
Structured settlement
Stub
Subject
Subject market
Subject to a (N.Y.) can
Subject to a print/execution/trading
Subjective probabilities
Subject to opinion
Subordinated debenture bond
Subordinated debt
Subordination clause
Subpart F
Subperiod return
Subscription price
Subscription warrant
Subsidiary
Substitute sale
Substitution swap
Sum-of-the-years'-digits depreciation
Sunk costs
Super D.O.T.
Supermajority
Supermajority amendment
Super message
Supply shock
Support level
Surplus funds
Surplus management
Sushi bond
Suspended trading
Sustainable growth rate
Swap
Swap assignment
Swap buy-back
Swap fund
Swap option
Swap rate
Swap reversal
Swap sale
Swaption
Sweep account
Swingline facility
Swissy
Switching
Switch order
Symbol
Symbol book special
Symmetric cash matching
Synchronous data
Syndicate
Synergistic effect
Synthetics
Synthetic convertible
Systematic
Systematic risk
Systematic risk principle

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