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 J - the Commodity Futures Symbol which represents the April Delivery Month.

January Effect - the tendency for small capitalization stocks to exhibit an upward bias in their price behavior during the month of January.  Some observers believe this may be partially attributable to the influence of index funds buying stocks for various retirement plans when new contributions would be qualified to commence in January.

Jensen Index - an index that uses the capital asset pricing model to determine whether a money manager outperformed a market index.

Jet Fuel - see also jet fuel price risk hedging.

Joint Normal Distribution - a multivariate distribution with normal marginal distributions.

Joule - a measurement unit for energy.

Jump-Diffusion Model - a stochastic process that combines random jumps with a geometric Brownian motion.

Junk Bond - a bond whose credit rating is below BBB.


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