- Industry: Financial services
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Contract that gives the holder the right to sell a particular currency at a specified price (exchange rate) within a specified period of time.
Industry:Financial services
The increase in an asset's market price. Also called capital appreciation.
Industry:Financial services
The length of the time period that elapses before interest compounds (a quarter in the case of quarterly compounding).
Industry:Financial services
Used to describe industries that require large investments in capital assets to produce their goods, such as the automobile industry. These firms require large profit margins and/or low costs of borrowing to survive.
Industry:Financial services
The investigation of a firm's business in conjunction with a securities offering to determine whether the firm's business and financial situation and its prospects are adequately disclosed in the prospectus for the offering.
Industry:Financial services
Applies mainly to international equities: (1) consideration that a currency is overvalued if private demand for the currency at the going exchange rate is less than total private supply (i.e., central banks are buying up the difference, supporting the value of the currency through foreign exchange intervention); (2) currency value exceeding purchasing power parity.
Industry:Financial services
Market indexes maintained by Morgan Stanley that track major stock markets worldwide.
Industry:Financial services
The corporate manager responsible for the firm's accounting activities. Sometimes referred to as the contoller (which means the same thing).
Industry:Financial services
A deliberate upward adjustment in the official exchange rate established, or pegged, by government against a specified standard, such as another currency or gold.
Industry:Financial services
