- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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Ratios used to judge the adequacy of liquid assets for meeting short-term obligations as they come due, including (1) the current ratio, (2) the acid test ratio, (3) the inventory turnover ratio, and (4) the accounts receivable turnover ratio.
Industry:Financial services
An option in which the underlying is a common stock index.
Industry:Financial services
Denoting a market or a security that is at the end of a period of rising prices and can now be expected to stay on a plateau or even to decline.
Industry:Financial services
An agreement between a buyer and a seller on the price to be paid for a security, followed by delivery.
Industry:Financial services
Short-term securities issued by states, municipalities, and quesi-government entities such as local housing and urban renewal agencies.
Industry:Financial services
A swap involving a stock index. The other asset involved in a stock index swap can be another stock index (a stock-for-stock swap), a debt index (a debt-for-stock swap), or any other financial asset or financial price index.
Industry:Financial services
Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options.
Industry:Financial services
Sale of an existing asset to a financial institution that then leases it back to the user. Related: Lease.
Industry:Financial services
