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Profiting on interest rate differentials. For instance, borrowing money at a relatively low short-term rate and lending it out a higher long-term rates. 

Accounting rules and procedures established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, an independent self-regulating organization. 

A special term attached to an equity order that requires the trade to be settled either the same day or the following business day for cash.

Mutual funds specializing in a specific geographic area such as Europe.

Cash in bank and all securities that can readily be converted to cash within three months or less. 

A private-sector index (1992=100) that attempts to predict the direction of inflation over the next 6 to 12 months.

Largest companies have most influence on index price action.

A company estimates the future profitability of a trade made today and books a profit today based on the present value of those estimated future profits.

Indices for which there is a maximum relative weight by market capitalization for any one constituent. Any individual constituent of the index can represent no more than a specified percent of the index. The individual constituents of the S&P/TSX Capped Composite and S&P/TSX Capped 60 indices are capped at 10%, while the individual constituents of the S&P/TSX Capped sector indices are capped at 25%.

Growth at a reasonable price. A strategy of buying stocks whose price/earnings ratio is equal to or less than the estimated annual earnings growth rate.