- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
- Company Profile:
World's leading financial information-service, news, and media company.
The New York-based commodity exchange trading futures and options. The CS&CE shares the trading floor at the Commodities Exchange Center.
Industry:Financial services
A hypothesis that the probability density function of the market may be determined by a combination of group sentiment and fundamental bias. Depending on combinations of these two factors, the market can be in one of four states: random walk, unstable transition, chaos, or coherence.
Industry:Financial services
Investment-grade bonds backed by a collection of junk bonds with different levels of risk, called tiers, that are determined by the quality of junk bond involved. CBOs backed by highly risky junk bonds receive higher interest rates than other CBOs.
Industry:Financial services
A security backed by a pool of pass-through rates , structured so that there are several classes of bondholders with varying maturities, called tranches. The principal payments from the underlying pool of pass-through securities are used to retire the bonds on a priority basis as specified in the prospectus. Related: mortgage pass-through security.
Industry:Financial services
A bank that assists in obtaining payment in accordance with draft payment terms.
Industry:Financial services
Established in 1984, the only public stock exchange of Sri Lanka.
Industry:Financial services
Computerized OTC traders assistance system that provides for trade entry and position monitoring, among other functions.
Industry:Financial services
A division of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). Formerly known as the Commodity Exchange, COMEX is the leading US market for metals futures and options trading.
Industry:Financial services
Similar to MBS but backed by loans secured with commercial rather than residential property. Commercial property includes multi-family, retail, office, etc., They are not standardized so there are a lot of details associated with structure, credit enhancement, diversification, etc., that need to be understood when valuing these instruments.
Industry:Financial services
Committee that assigns identifying numbers and codes for all securities. These "CUSIP" numbers and symbols are used when recording all buy or sell orders.
Industry:Financial services
