- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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An underwriter or a broker-dealer who trades with other broker-dealers, rather than with the retail investor.
Industry:Financial services
A subsidiary whose parent company owns virtually 100% of its common stock.
Industry:Financial services
A nickname for the Washington Public Power Supply System, which in the 1970s raised billions of dollars through municipal bond offerings, the projects that never materialized. WPPSS defaulted on the payments to bondholders.
Industry:Financial services
Come from when issued. Treasury bills trade on a WI basis between the day they are auctioned and the day settlement is made. Bills traded before they are auctioned are said to be traded WI WI
Industry:Financial services
Abnormally wide spread between the bid and asked prices of a security at the opening of a trading session.
Industry:Financial services
A stock paying high dividends with a low beta and noncyclical business, that is an extremely safe investment.
Industry:Financial services
Established in 1771, the major securities market of Austria.
Industry:Financial services
The right of the seller of a Treasury bond futures contract to give notice of intent to deliver at or before 8:00 p.m. Chicago time after the closing of the exchange (3:15 p.m. Chicago time) when the futures settlement price has been fixed. Related: Timing option.
Industry:Financial services
Federal legislation enacted in 1968 (and now constituting Rules 13d and 14d of the Security Exchange Act of 1934) that imposes requirements with respect to public tender offers.
Industry:Financial services
Widely followed performance measurement indexes measuring performance of all U.S.-headquartered equity securities with readily available price data, created by Wilshire Associates, Inc.
Industry:Financial services
