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Across The Board: Movement or trend in the stock market that affects almost all stocks in all sectors to move in the same direction.

Purchasing Power Of The Dollar: The amount of goods and services that can be exchanged for a dollar as compared with amount of a previous time period.

Punch The Greens: Another phrase for aerate

Pure Expectations Theory: A theory that asserts that forward rates exclusively represent the expected future rates. In other words, the entire term structure reflects the market's expectations of future short-term ra . . . View Full Definition

Push Therapy: PUSH Therapy was specifically designed to eliminate pain originating from chronic tension. Therapists learn Soft Pressure Stimulation to treat tissue on a layer-by-layer basis. Techniques ar . . . View Full Definition

Putative Father Registry: a.k.a. Birth Father Registry, state registry where alleged paternity can be listed and birth fathers have the opportunity to protest the birth mother's adoption plans. Approximately one-half . . . View Full Definition

Pulling The Goalie: When a team is down by one goal and they are running out of time, they might take the goalie off the ice and replace him with an attacking player. This is known as pulling the goalie. Of cou . . . View Full Definition

Pulling In Their Horns: Investors selling off positions after a stock or bond market has increased sharply or setting up hedging positions to guard against a negative turn of the market.

Prosthetic Devices: A device that replaces all or a part of the human body because a part of the body is permanently damaged, is absent or is malfunctioning.

Prosthesis: Adding an extra syllable or letters to the beginning of a word for poetic effect. Shakespeare writes in his sonnets, 'All alone, I beweep my outcast state.' He could have simply written weep . . . View Full Definition