PERSONAL FINANCE GLOSSARY

Back-End Load

Balance Transfer

Balanced Funds

Balanced Mutual Fund

Balloon Loan

Basic Earnings

Basis Point

Bellwether Stock

Benchmark

Beneficiary

Bequest

Best's Insurance Report

Beta

Bid

Bond

Bond Funds

Book To Bill

Book Value

Breadth

Business Continuation Plan

Buy-Sell Agreement

Book to bill is the semiconductor book to bill ratio. It reports on the amount of semiconductor chips that are booked for delivery as compared with those that companies already have billed for.

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