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Rationalize




Rationalize

To eliminate unnecessary employees, equipment, processes, etc. from a company or factory to make it more efficient.

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Company
A proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or other form of enterprise that engages in business.



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Ratings
An evaluation of credit quality of a company's debt issue by Thomson Financial BankWatch, Moody's, S&P, and Fitch Investors Service. Investors and analysts use ratings to assess the riskness of an investment.

Ratio
The relation between two quantifies expressed as the number of times one is greater than the other.

Ratio analysis
A way of expressing relationships between a firm's accounting numbers and their trends over time that analysts use to establish values and evaluate risks.

Ratio calendar combination
A strategy consisting of a simultaneous position of a ratio calendar spread using "calls" and a similar position using puts, where the striking price of the "calls" is greater that the striking price of the "puts".

Ratio calendar spread
Selling more near-term options than longer-term ones purchased, all with the same strike; either puts or calls.

Ratio spread
Constructed with either puts or calls, the strategy consists of buying a certain amount of options and then selling a larger quantity of more out-of-the-money options.

Ratio strategy
A strategy in which one has an unequal number of long securities and short securities. Normally, it implies a preponderance of short options over either long options or long stock.

Ratio writer
An option writer who does not own the number of shares required to cover the call options he or she writes.

Rational expectations
The belief that people's expectations compensate for, and render useless, interventionist government policy.

Rationalization
A reorganization of a company in order to increase its efficiency.



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Ratio spread
Constructed with either puts or calls, the strategy consists of buying a certain amount of options and then selling a larger quantity of more out-of-the-money options.

Ratio strategy
A strategy in which one has an unequal number of long securities and short securities. Normally, it implies a preponderance of short options over either long options or long stock.

Ratio writer
An option writer who does not own the number of shares required to cover the call options he or she writes.

Rational expectations
The belief that people's expectations compensate for, and render useless, interventionist government policy.

Rationalization
A reorganization of a company in order to increase its efficiency.

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Raw material supply agreement
As used in connection with project financing, an agreement to furnish a specified amount per period of a specified raw material.

Raw materials
Minerals, metals, agricultural goods, etc. extracted from the ground and used in industry.

Razorblade model
A business tactic involving the sale of dependent goods for different prices - one good is sold at a discount, while the second dependent good is sold at a considerably higher price.

Reachback
The ability of a tax shelter or limited partnership to deduct certain costs and expenses at the end of the year that were incurred throughout the entire year.

Reaction
A decline in prices following an advance.

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