baked in

adj. built in or into (a process, a system, a deal, a financial exchange, etc.). Subjects: English, Business, Money & Finance, Jargon

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Citations: 1980 Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) (July 1) “Import curbs” (in Detroit, Michigan) p. B2: Otherwise, he said, all of the growth that has redounded to the Japanese this year will be baked in on a longer term basis while what the domestic industry “needs more than anything else is volume.” 1985 Frederic A. Miller, John E. Pluenneke @ Bonn, Germany BusinessWeek (June 17) “American Bulls Are Running In Frankfurt”: The key reason for the foreign inflow, says Chilton Thomson, a director of American Express Asset Management in London, is that “a good deal of the profit is already baked in the cake.” 2002 Carly Fiorina (CNN: Moneyline) (Feb.) “Dow Advances 125.93 to 9989.67; Nasdaq Advances 24.95 to 1859.16”: This is a merger that is accretive, substantially accretive, with revenue losses already baked in and with quite conservative cost synergies. 2003 Hope Yen Providence Journal (Rhode Island) (Feb. 25) “Fear provokes month-high stock drop” p. E03: Depending on the sentiment of the day, investors can think the worst case is already baked in, and another day think things can get even worse. 2003 Stephen Farber (Fair Disclosure Wire) (Apr. 10) “Q3 2003 Tenet Healthcare Earnings Conference Call—Final”: We have not reflected anything in the budget beyond that except for whatever share repurchases come out of the proceeds from the asset sales. That’s sort of baked in, in terms of impact on this year. It is baked into the paragraph in our release and my comments related to the asset sale impact. 2004 Susan M. Menke (Newsbytes News Network) (Oct. 22) “Global grid will have data assurance ‘baked in’”: The plan spells out no specific solutions at this point, but it will ensure that IA is “baked in” by authenticating credentials, security clearances, roles and situational awareness throughout the GIG, he said. Some form of user token will be part of the security architecture. 2006 Liz Moyer Forbes (Mar. 9) “NYSE Group’s Stellar Opening Day”: Archipelago shares have marched steadily higher since April, when the deal was announced, from $18 per share then to about $64 as of Tuesday’s close. Some analysts have suggested this means any gains were already “baked in,” which is Wall Street parlance for “it ain’t gonna to get any better than this.” 2006 Randall W. Forsyth Barron’s (May 1) “Back to the Future”: As a result, the futures market says a 25-basis-point hike in the federal-funds target, to 5%, at the May 10 meeting is baked in the cake. 2006 Jennifer Mears Network World Fusion (June 19) “Baked-in virtualization expected to heat up the market”: VMware created the market for x86 virtualization in 2001, but industry experts predict 2006 is the year when the technology will finally take off. For one thing, Intel and AMD are starting to roll out chips with virtualization capabilities baked in.

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