1. Securities are issued in the .......... market by one of the following methods: an offer to the public by an issuer through a prospectus; an offer to specific known persons selected by the sponsors; or an offer in which existing shareholders are offered new securities.

2. On the other hand, hostile takeovers often result in the management being fired anyway, so the effectiveness of a .......... pill defense really depends on the situation.

3. At any given time, a minimum of four different expiration months are available for every .......... stock.

4. .......... benefits cannot be lost by a participant even if the participant terminates service with the employer before qualifying for full retirement benefits; these benefits are determined by applying the years of credited service to the vesting schedule used by the retirement plan.

5. A municipal .......... is a short-term debt instrument, generally with a maturity of less than one year, issued by state or local government, and repayable from the general fund of the issuer or a defined revenue source.

6. A .......... security is a readily tradable equity or debt security with quoted prices, including commercial paper and treasury bills; it is a 'close to cash' asset which is classified as a current asset.

7. To be accurate, the term .......... preference should only pertain to money returned to a particular series of the company's stock ahead of other series of stock.

8. Most SME businesses looking for venture money aren't going to find big firms interested in what they're doing, and that's where the .......... venture capital market becomes critical; this highly elusive source of financing is very unstructured and largely informal, comprising a diverse set of high net worth individuals.

9. One objective of .......... accounting is to eliminate the 'money illusion' by reducing the accounts to 'real terms'; the purchasing power or constant dollar method does not meet this general objective.

10. It is deemed as significant if a security breaks above the resistance level or below the support level: analysts usually interpret this to mean that the security will reach new highs or lows and thus, its .......... trading range expands.