- Industry: Financial services
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A secured loan that gives the lender a lien against all the borrower's inventories.
Industry:Financial services
A recommendation by a brokerage firm sent to all its customers advising that they buy or sell a particular stock regardless of investment objectives or portfolio size.
Industry:Financial services
A limited partnership that does not announce its intentions as to what properties will be acquired.
Industry:Financial services
A trust in which a fiduciary third party has total discretion to make investments on behalf of a beneficiary while the beneficiary is uninformed about the holdings of the trust.
Industry:Financial services
Large quantity of stock or large dollar amount of bonds held or traded. As a rule of thumb, 10,000 shares or more of stock and $200,000 or more worth of bonds would be described as a block.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of general equities, conference meeting during which customer indications and orders, along with the traders' own buy/sell preferences, are conveyed to the entire organization. See block list.
Industry:Financial services
Brokerage firms that help to find potential buyers or sellers of large block trades.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of general equities, listing of stock the investment bank is looking for (wants to buy) or (wants to sell) at the beginning of the day, whether on an agency or principal basis.
Industry:Financial services
A large trading order, defined on the New York Stock Exchange as an order that consists of 10,000 shares of a given stock or at a total market value of $200,000 or more.
Industry:Financial services
A dealer who will take a position in the block trades to accommodate customer buyers and sellers of blocks. See: Dealer, market maker, principal.
Industry:Financial services
