Money paid out regularly by a company to its shareholders.
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Diversification
An investment strategy that seeks to minimize risk by diversifying investment across different companies and asset classes.
Divergence
When the price of an asset and a technical indicator are moving in two different directions. It usually warns of a weakening price trend and may lead to price reversals.
District Business Conduct Committee (DBCC)
The primary local enforcement arm of the NASD.
Distributions
Distributions describe the gradual entry of large amounts of a security in smaller blocks that are slowly sold into the market to inundate the market with sell orders for the security and drive down its price.
Disposable Income
The amount of money that a person or household has left after taxes.
Discount Rate
The interest rate used in discounted cash flow analysis to determine the present value of future cash flows.
Discount Bond
A bond that issues for less than face value or that trades for less than its face value on the secondary market.
Dilution
Dilution happens when new stock gets issued, resulting in a decrease in existing stockholder ownership percentage in the company.
Differential
The value adjustment of grade and value that a futures contract permits.