Financial Terms by Letter: W
- W
- W-8
- W-9
- 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
- Whitemail
- White's rating
- White-shoe firm
- Whole life insurance
- Whole loan
- Wholesale mortgage banking
- Wholesaler
- Wholly owned subsidiary
- Whoops
- WI
- WI WI
- Wide opening
- Widow-and-orphan stock
- Wiener B&#ouml;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
Copyright © 2011 Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
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