Buying forward means you agree to buy something in the future. You promise to pay a set price to get that thing on a specific future date. The thing could be an asset like gold or corn. Or it could just be an amount of cash in another currency. The price is locked in today…

Buyers’ credit is money that a bank or financial company lends to someone who wants to buy things from another country. The person who borrows the money uses it to pay for the things they are buying. Then they have to pay the money back to the bank later, with extra money called interest. How…

Buy-back deductible insurance is a type of insurance policy. It lets you pay a little more money each month so you don’t have to pay your deductible if something bad happens. How Buy-Back Deductible Works A deductible is the amount of money you have to pay when you make an insurance claim before the insurance…

A buy-back is when a company or government buys back its own stuff that it previously sold to people. There are two main types of buy-backs: share buy-backs and bond buy-backs. Share Buy-Backs With a share buy-back, a company buys back its own shares of stock from shareholders. The company pays cash money to shareholders…

Buy and hold investing means you buy investments and keep them for a long time, even many years. You believe the investments will go up in value over time. You do not try to make money buying and selling investments quickly. Focusing on the Long-Term When you use a buy and hold strategy, you do…

A butterfly spread is a way to trade options. Options give you the choice to buy or sell something at a set price by a certain date. Butterfly spreads always use the same number of “call” options or “put” options that end at the same time. There is one option with a low price, two…

Busted convertible bonds are kinda like regular convertible bonds. But they’re different in one big way – they don’t have a good chance of being “converted” into regular company stock. Let’s break it down. What are convertible bonds? A convertible bond is a special type of bond. Companies sell these bonds to raise money. The…

A bust-up takeover, also called a leveraged buyout, is when a company buys another company using a lot of borrowed money (debt). After buying the company, the new owners sell some of the company’s assets to pay back the debt they took on to buy it. The company doing the takeover is called the acquiring…

Business liability insurance protects a company if it gets sued for something it did that caused harm to someone else. It pays for things like lawyer fees to defend the company in court and money the company might owe if it loses a lawsuit or agrees to a settlement to end the case. Different Kinds…