Soft Loan
Loan given to individuals, companies, or countries at a low rate of interest for special reasons.
Spectail
A Speculator – cum – retail dealer of shares i.e a broker who handles retail client accounts, but whose main occupation is speculative trading on his own account.
Speculation
An activity, in which a person assumes high risks, often without regard for the safety of his invested principal, to achieve large capital gains. The time span in which the gain is sought to be made is usually very short. The shorter the term, the more speculative the investment is.
Split
it is a US term for distribution of bonus shares, through which the ownership value of each existing share is split also occurs when a company decides to reduce the par value of a share by issuing a proportionate number of lower – value shares,
Strongly Efficient Market
A market in which all information (and not just publicly available information) about a share is reflected in its price. Such as market is hypothetical, cause all information about a share’s price is hardly ever accessible.
Subject Quote
A bid and/offer price (quote) that is subject to negotiation between brokers , it is a quotation that is not a firm.
Subscription
The buying of shares as a SUBSCRIBER to a new company is called a subscription.
Subscription Price
Also known as the “subscription privilege” or “preemptive right” of the shareholder.
The price at which rights shareholders can buy a company’s shares, or the price at which rights warrants are converted into equity shares.
Sunk Capital
The amount of a company’s capital that has already been spent and cannot be recovered again because it was spent on unrecoverable assets or assets which does not have a present value.