- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
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Abnormally wide spread between the bid and asked prices of a security at the opening of a trading session.
Industry:Financial services
A stock paying high dividends with a low beta and noncyclical business, that is an extremely safe investment.
Industry:Financial services
Established in 1771, the major securities market of Austria.
Industry:Financial services
The right of the seller of a Treasury bond futures contract to give notice of intent to deliver at or before 8:00 p.m. Chicago time after the closing of the exchange (3:15 p.m. Chicago time) when the futures settlement price has been fixed. Related: Timing option.
Industry:Financial services
Federal legislation enacted in 1968 (and now constituting Rules 13d and 14d of the Security Exchange Act of 1934) that imposes requirements with respect to public tender offers.
Industry:Financial services
Widely followed performance measurement indexes measuring performance of all U.S.-headquartered equity securities with readily available price data, created by Wilshire Associates, Inc.
Industry:Financial services
A sudden unexpected profit uncontrolled by the profiting party.
Industry:Financial services
A brokerage firm's cashier department, where delivery of securities and settlement of transactions take place.
Industry:Financial services
A guaranteed investment contract purchased with deposits over some future designated time period (the "window"), usually between 3 and 12 months. All deposits made are guaranteed the same credit rating. Related: Bullet contract.
Industry:Financial services
Trading activity near the end of a quarter or fiscal year that is designed to improve the appearance of a portfolio to be presented to clients or shareholders. For example, a portfolio manager may sell losing positions so as to display only positions that have gained in value.
Industry:Financial services
