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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The layman's finance crisis glossary The current financial crisis has thrown terminology from the business pages onto the front page of newspapers, with jargon now abounding everywhere from the watercooler to the back of a taxi. Here is a guide to many of the business terms currently cropping up regularly, as well as some of the more exotic words coined to describe some of the social effects of the credit crunch. Readers can send any terms they need explaining using the form at the bottom. AAA-rating Administration Assets Basis point Bear market Bond Bull market Capital Carry trade Capitulation Chapter 11 Collateralised debt obligation Commercial paper Commodities Correction Credit crunch Credit default swap Currency peg Dead cat bounce Deflation Derivatives Dividends Equity FTSE-100 Fundamentals Futures GDP Hedge fund Hedging Inflation Investment bank Junk bond Keynesian economics Limited liability Leveraging Libor Liquidity Loans to deposit ratio Mark-to-market Money markets Monoline insurance Mortgage-backed securities Naked short selling Nationalisation Negative equity Ponzi scheme Preference shares Prime rate Profit warning Quantitative easing Rating Recapitalisation Recession Retained earnings Rights issue Securities lending Securitisation Security Short selling Spiv Stagflation Sub-prime mortgages Swap Tier 1 capital Toxic debts Underwriters Unwind Warrants Write-down Yield spread