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Settlement of an option contract not by delivery of the underlying shares, but by a cash payment of the difference between the strike or exercise price and the underlying settlement price.

Sales charge paid when selling a mutual fund (a.k.a. back-end load).

Cost of materials and labor required to produce products or services. Gross profit is sales minus cost of sales. 

Any modification to the list of tradable issues of an exchange. These modifications include: new listings, supplemental security listings, substitutional listings, deletions, name changes, and stock symbol changes.

With rights. The owner of shares purchased cum rights is entitled to forthcoming, already-declared rights. The opposite of this is ex rights.

The physical document that shows ownership of a bond, stock or other security.

A balance sheet liability reflecting payments received for work not yet performed. 

A real-time message area usually dedicated to a particular topic.

The interest rate on a bond. 

Any modification to the list of tradable issues of an exchange. These modifications include: new listings, supplemental security listings, substitutional listings, deletions, name changes, and stock symbol changes.