- Industry: Financial services
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A bank loan, typically with a floating interest rate, for a specified amount that matures in between one and ten years, and requires a specified repayment schedule.
Industry:Financial services
Options: All option contracts of the same class that also have the same unit of trade, expiration date, and exercise price. Stocks: shares that have common characteristics, such as rights to ownership and voting, dividends, or par value. In the case of many foreign shares, one series may be owned only by citizens of the country in which the stock is registered.
Industry:Financial services
The relative steadiness or safety of a security or fund compared to the market as a whole. For example, money market funds and other short-term investments offer more stability than funds that invest in growth stocks.
Industry:Financial services
Combination of usable bonds and warrants (that expire on or after the bonds' maturity) that resembles convertible bond.
Industry:Financial services
The time remaining on a bond's life, or the date on which the debt will cease to exist and the borrower will have completely paid off the amount borrowed. See: Maturity.
Industry:Financial services
Bond that may be issued in several series under the same indenture document.
Industry:Financial services
Speculator who buys and sells stocks to hold for short intervals to make quick profits.
Industry:Financial services
A forward position constructed through borrowing in one currency, lending in another currency, and offsetting these transactions in the spot exchange market.
Industry:Financial services
Excess of the yields to maturity on long-term bonds over those of short-term bonds.
Industry:Financial services
A local and state tax-free bond issued by the U.S. government from 1941 to 1979, which was then replaced by Series HH bonds.
Industry:Financial services
