basket
Definition 1
A group of several securities created for the purpose of simultaneous buying and selling. Baskets often play a role in index arbitrage, program trading and hedging.
Definition 2
A collection of consumer goods and services that are tracked in the process of calculating a consumer price index. also called market basket.
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' appears in the definitions of these terms on BusinessDictionary.comproduct price index (PPI), purchasing power parity, retail price index (RPI), special drawing rights (SDR), consumer price index (CPI), and 
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