- Industry: Financial services
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The amount of money that a willing buyer pays to acquire something from a willing seller, when a buyer and seller are independent and when such an exchange is motivated by only commercial consideration.
Industry:Financial services
A short put option position in which the writer does not have a corresponding short stock position or has not deposited, in a cash account, cash or cash equivalents equal to the exercise value of the put. The writer has pledged to buy the asset at a certain price if the buyer of the option chooses to exercise it. Uncovered put options limit the writer's risk to the value of the stock (adjusted for premium received.) Also called "naked" puts.
Industry:Financial services
A short put option position in which the writer does not have a corresponding short position in the underlying security or has not deposited, in a cash account,
Industry:Financial services
When an originating investment banker cannot find enough firms to underwrite a new issue.
Industry:Financial services
Describes limited interest by prospective buyers in a new issue of a security during the preoffering registration period.
Industry:Financial services
A business has insufficient capital to carry out its normal functions.
Industry:Financial services
A pension plan that has a negative surplus (i.e., liabilities exceed assets).
Industry:Financial services
The mirror image of the asset substitution problem, in that stockholders refuse to invest in low-risk assets to avoid shifting wealth from themselves to debtholders.
Industry:Financial services
