- Industry: Financial services
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Very short-maturity bills that the Treasury occasionally sells because its cash balances are down and it needs money for a few days.
Industry:Financial services
Enables preferred stockholders to vote when the company fails to satisfy the agreement between itself and the preferred stockholders.
Industry:Financial services
Also called spot markets, these are markets that involve the immediate delivery of a security or instrument. Related: Derivative markets.
Industry:Financial services
The process of accumulating the time value of money forward in time on a continuous, or instantaneous, basis. Interest is earned constantly, and at each instant, the interest that accrues immediately begins earning interest on itself.
Industry:Financial services
Often used in risk arbitrage. Proposal, either hostile or friendly, to acquire a target company through the payment of cash for the stock of the target. Compare to exchange offer.
Industry:Financial services
A random value that can take any fractional value within specified ranges, as contrasted with a discrete variable.
Industry:Financial services
A method used to find the return on investments when there is no active secondary market. The yield is determined by dividing the annual cash income by the total investment. See: Current yield or yield to maturity.
Industry:Financial services
The broker on the buy side of a sell order or the sell side of a buy order.
Industry:Financial services
Convertible bond that requires cash payment upon conversion.
Industry:Financial services
A term of reference describing a unit of trading for a financial or commodity future. Also, the actual bilateral agreement between the buyer and seller of a transaction as defined by an exchange.
Industry:Financial services
