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GLOSARIO DE TÉRMINOS ECONÓMICO - FINANCIEROS
(Español / Inglés)
Acumulación de inventarios:
A inventory buildup.
Ajuste: adjustment, tightening.
Acumulación de reservas
Abogado jefe: chief counsel. internacionales: foreign exchange
reserve accumulation.
Absorción pública: public absorption.
Administración y contabilidad:
Acciones y aportes: shares and management and accounting.
contributions.
Administradoras de Fondos de
Acreencias: payables. Pensiones (AFP): private pension
funds, or pension fund managers.
Actividad económica: economic Although administrator is used rather
activity. widely, the most correct term in English
is “manager”, not “administrator” (ie.
Activos externos del sector privado Investment fund manager, etc.).
no bancario: foreign assets of the
nonbanking private sector. ADR secundarios: secondary ADRs
(American Depositary Receipts).
Activos financieros: financial assets.
Agregados monetarios: monetary
Activos internacionales en divisas: aggregates.
foreign exchange holdings, foreign
exchange assets. Ahorro externo: foreign saving.
B C
Balance: balance sheet(s). Calce de moneda extranjera: foreign
currency match.
Balance del Banco Central de Chile:
Central Bank of Chile´s balance sheet. Calce de plazos: maturity match.
Insumo: input, unless the context IPCX: CPIX, underlying inflation, core
requires a different translation (eg: inflation.
insumos de oficina: office supplies).
L
Ley de Presupuesto: National Budget bills of credit held by the public +
for the year... private sector deposits in foreign
currency.
Ley Orgánica Constitucional del
Banco Central de Chile: Basic Margen bruto: gross margin.
Constitucional Act of the Central Bank
of Chile. Margen de comercialización: profit
margin or mark-up.
Licitación de pagarés nominales a
42 días: tender of 42-day nominal Margen de flotación: band width.
promissory notes.
Margen neto (total resultado
Licitación de pagarés nominales de operacional): net margin (total
corto plazo (PDBC a 42 días y PDBC operating balance).
a 90 días): tender of short-term
nominal promissory notes (42-day Memoria anual: annual report.
PDBCs and 90-day PDBCs).
Mercado cambiario: foreign exchange
Límite inferior de la banda market.
cambiaria: lower limit of the
exchange-rate band. Mercado cambiario formal: formal
foreign exchange market.
Límite superior de la banda
cambiaria: upper limit of the Mercado de divisas: foreign exchange
exchange-rate band. market.
Onza troy de oro: troy ounce of gold. Pagarés Reajustables con Tasa de
Interés Flotante (PTF): indexed
Operaciones de cambio: foreign promissory notes at floating interest
Exchange operations. rates.
Paridad del poder de compra (PPC): Precio del cobre: copper price.
purchasing power parity (PPP).
Precio del dólar: dollar-peso
Paridad peso-dólar: peso-dollar exchange rate.
parity.
Precio de nudo: node price.
Patrimonio: equity, capital and
reserves (balance sheets). Precios constantes: constant prices.
R Rezago: lag.
Riesgo cambiario: exchange-rate risk. Superintendencia de Bancos e
Instituciones Financieras:
Riesgo-país: country risk. Superintendente of Banks and other
Financial Institutions.
S
Salarios nominales: nominal wages. T
Tasa de captación: deposit rate.
Sector externo: external sector.
Tasa de colocación: lending rate.
Sector manufacturero o industrial:
manufacturing or industrial sector. Tasa de crecimiento: growth rate.