Siglas

A área do investimento em mercados financeiros é repleta de siglas.

Este artigo serve para concentrar num só local o maior número possível dessas siglas, junto com um pequeno comentário sobre cada uma (e obviamente, a ligação para o artigo respectivo).

Sigla	Significado
AAII	American Association of Individual Investors
ABCP	Asset Backed Commercial Paper
ACATS	Automated Customer Account Transfer Service
ADR	American Depositary Receipt
ADS	American Depositary Share
ADSL	Assymetric Digital Subscriber Line
AF	Análise Fundamental
AFBD	Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers (UK)
AFFM	Australian Financial Futures Market
AG	Assembleia Geral
AH	After-Hours
AMEX	American Express (cartão de crédito)
AMEX	The American Stock Exchange, Inc.
API	Application Programming Interface
APR	Annual Percentage Rate
APT	Arbitrage Pricing Theory
APV	Adjusted Present Value
ARM	Adjustable Rate Mortgage
ARPU	Average Revenue Per User
ASAP	As Soon As Possible (tão rápido quanto possível)
AT	Análise Técnica
ATM	At-the-money
ATM	Automated Teller Machine (Multibanco)
ATR	Average True Range
ATS	Automated Trading System
AUM	Assets Under Management
bps	Basis points
BBO	Best Bid and Offer
BCE	Banco Central Europeu
BDI	Baltic Dry Index
BK	BanKruptcy
BOPM	Binomial Options Pricing Model
BOTCC	Board of Trade Clearing Corporation
BoE	Bank of England
BT	Bilhete do Tesouro
BVPS	Book Value Per Share
CAPM	Capital Asset Pricing Model
CAPEX	Capital Expenditure
CBOE	Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
CBOT	Chicago Board of Trade
CC	Coeficiente de Contingência
CCO	Chief Compliance Officer
CD	Certificate of Deposit
CDD	Cooling Degree Day
CDO	Collaterized Debt Obligation
CDS	Credit Default Swap
CE	Cash Earnings
CEO	Chief Executive Officer
CET	Central European Time
CF	Cash Flow
CFROI	Cash Flow Return on Investment
CFA	Chartered Financial Analyst
CFO	Chief Financial Officer
CFTC	Commodity Futures Trading Commission
CGT	Capital Gains Tax
CIO	Chief Information Officer
CKO	Chief Knowledge Officer
CME	Chicago Mercantile Exchange
CMS	Constant Maturity Swap
CMV	Current Market Value
CMVM	Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários
CMO	Collateralized Mortgage Obligation
COF	COnsulta de oFertas
COO	Chief Operating Officer
COT	Commitment Of Traders
CP	Commercial Paper
CPDO	Constant Proportion Debt Obligation
CPI	Consumer Price Index
CRSP	Center for Research in Security Prices
CSO	Chief Security Officer
CTO	Chief Technology Officer
CUSIP	Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures
DCA	Dollar Cost Averaging
DCF	Discounted Cash Flow
DDM	Dividend Discount Model
DFCF	Discounted Free Cash Flow
DMIF	Directiva dos Mercados de Instrumentos Financeiros
DO	Depósito à Ordem
DP	Depósito a prazo
DPS	Dividend Per Share
DR	Demonstração de resultados
DTCC	Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
DTI	Debt-To-Income
DY	Dividend Yield
D/E	Debt/Equity Ratio
EBIT	Earnings Before Interest and Taxes
EBITDA	Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization
ECB	European Central Bank
ECN	Electronic Communications Network
EFP	Exchange For Physical
EFT	Electronic Funds Transfer
EL	Expected Loss
EPS	Earnings Per Share
ERISA	Employee Retirement Income Security Act
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ERP	Equity Risk Premium
ETC	Exchange-Traded Commodity
ETF	Exchange-Traded Fund
ETN	Exchange-Traded Note
EURIBOR	EURo InterBank Offered Rate
EV	Enterprise Value
EVA	Enterprise Value Added
FASB	Financial Accounting Standards Board
FCF	Free Cash Flow
FCFE	Free Cash Flow to Equity
FCFF	Free Cash Flow to Firm
FDIC	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FED	FEDeral reserve
FIFO	First In First Out
FIM	Fundos de Investimento Mobiliário
FIX	Financial Information eXchange
FMI	Fundo Monetário Internacional
FOK	Fill-Or-Kill
FOMC	Federal Open Market Committee
FOREX	FOReign Exchange
FRA	Forward Rate Agreement
FRB	Federal Reserve Board
FYI	For Your Information (para seu conhecimento)
FV	Future Value
FX	Forex
GAAP	Generally Accepted Accounting Standards
GBP	Great Britain Pound (Pound Sterling)
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GIC	(pronuncia-se gick) Guaranteed Investment Contract
GL	General Ledger
GNP	Gross National Product
GSE	Government-sponsored Enterprise
GTC	Good Till Cancelled
GUDD	Gold Up, Dollar Down
HCE	Hora Central Europeia
HDD	Heating Degree Day
HHI	Herfindahl-Hirschman Index
IAS	International Accounting Standards
IBAN	International Bank Account Number
IDE	Investimento Directo Estrangeiro
IFRS	International Financial Reporting Standards
IHH	Índice de Herfindahl-Hirschman
ILB	Inflation Linked Bond
IMF	International Monetary Fund
IMM	International Monetary Market
IOU	I Owe You
IPC	Índice de Preços ao Consumidor
IPO	Initial Public Offering
IRA	Individual Retirement Account
IRC	Imposto sobre o Rendimento das Pessoas Colectivas
IRS	Imposto sobre o Rendimento das Pessoas Singulares
IRS	(US) Inland Revenue Service
IRR	Internal Rate of Return
ISDA	International Swap Dealers Association
IVA	Imposto sobre o Valor Acrescentado
JPY	JaPanese Yen
LEAPS	Long-term Equity AnticiPation Securities
LBO	Leveraged Buyout
LGD	Loss Given Default
LIFO	Last In First Out
LOI	Letter of Intent
LTCM	Long-Term Capital Management
LTV	Loan To Value
M&A	Mergers & Aquisitions
MACD	Moving Average Convergence Divergence
MBA	Master in Business Administration
MBAO	Modelo Binomial de Avaliação de Opções
MBO	Management Buy Out
MBS	Mortgage-Backed Security
MM	Market Maker
MM	Média Móvel
MMI	Mercado Monetário Interbancário
MMKT	Money Market
MPT	Modern Portfolio Theory
MRD	Minimum Required Distribution
MTM	Mark-to-Market
NAIRU	Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment
NASD	National Association of Securities Dealers
NASDAQ	National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (system)
NAV	Net Asset Value
NIB	Número de Identificação Bancária
NOPLAT	Net Operating Profit Less Adjusted Taxes
NPV	Net Present Value
NYMEX	New-York Mercantile Exchange
NYSE	New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
OCA	One-Cancels-All
OCC	The Options Clearing Corporation
OCDE	Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Económico
OE	Orçamento de Estado
OHLC	Open-High-Low-Close
ONG	Organização Não Governamental
ONU	Organização das Nações Unidas
OPA	Oferta Pública de Aquisição
OPEP	Organização dos Países Exportadores de Petróleo
OPEX	Operational Expenditure
OPRA	Options Price Reporting Authority
OPV	Oferta Pública de Venda
OT	Obrigação do Tesouro
OTC	Over-the-Counter
OTRV	Obrigação do Tesouro de Renda Variável
P&L	Profit and Loss
PAC	Política Agrícola Comum
PALOP	Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa
PBV	Price/Book value
PCES	Plano de Contas para as Empresas de Seguros
PCF	Price/Cash Flow
PCSB	Plano de Contas para o Sistema Bancário
PD	Probability of Default
PER	Price/Earnings Ratio
PHLX	Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
PIB	Produto Interno Bruto
PIDDAC	Programa de Investimento e Despesas de Desenvolvimento da Administração Central
PLC	Public Limited Company
PK	PinK sheets
PNB	Produto Nacional Bruto
POA	Power of Attorney
POC	Plano Oficial de Contas
POP	Public Offering Price
POTUS	President Of The United States
PPA	Plano Poupança Acções
PPC	Paridade de Poder de Compra / Padrão de Poder de Compra
PPI	Producer Price Index
PPP	Purchasing Power Parity
PPR	Plano Poupança Reforma
PPS	Purchasing Power Standard
PPT	Plunge Protection Team
PSE	The Pacific Stock Exchange, Inc.
PSP	Profit Sharing Plan
PV	Present Value
RAJI	Resultado Antes de Juros e Impostos
REIT	Real Estate Investment Trust
RFC	Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RO	Resultado Operacional
ROA	Return On Assets
ROC	Rate Of Change
ROC	Return On Capital
ROE	Return On Equity
ROI	Return On Investment
ROIC	Return On Invested Capital
RSI	Relative Strenght Index
R&D	Research and Development
S&P	Standard and Poor's
SARL	Sociedade anónima de responsabilidade limitada
SDR	Special Drawing Rights
SEBC	Sistema Europeu de Bancos Centrais
SEC	Securities and Exchange Commission
SICAV	Sociedade de Investimento de Capital Variável
SPV	Special-Purpose Vehicle
SRO	Self-Regulatory Organization
SSS	Same-Store Sales
SIV	Structured Investment Vehicle
TAE	Taxa Anual Efectiva
TAEB	Taxa Anual Efectiva Bruta
TAEG	Taxa Anual Efectiva Global
TAEL	Taxa Anual Efectiva Líquida
TAN	Taxa Anual Nominal
TANB	Taxa Anual Nominal Bruta
TANL	Taxa Anual Nominal Líquida
TARGET	Trans-european Automated Real-time Gross-settlement Express Transfer
TBTF	Too Big To Fail
TDA	Tax-deferred Annuity
TIPS	(US) Treasury Inflation Protected Securities
TIR	Taxa Interna de Rendibilidade
TOC	Técnico Oficial de Contas
TRCB	Taxa de Referência para o Cálculo de Bonificações
TRIN	The Trading Index
TSA	Tax-sheltered Annuity
TTM	Trailing Twelve Months (nos últimos 12 meses)
TVM	Time Value of Money
TWAP	Time Weighted Average Price
UEM	União Económica e Monetária
USD	United States Dollar
USO	United States Oil Fund
UTC	Universal Time, Coordinated
VAL	Valor Actual Líquido
VALA	Valor Actual Líquido Ajustado
VAR	Value-at-Risk
VIX	Volatility IndeX (S&P 500)
VWAP	Volume-Weighted Average Price
WACC	Weighted Average Cost of Capital
WSJ	Wall Street Journal
WTI	West Texas Intermediate
YTD	Year To Date (Do início do ano até esta data)
YTM	Yield To Maturity
ZIRP	Zero Interest Rate Policy