- Industry: Financial services
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Takeover bid in which the acquirer offers to pay more for the shares needed to gain control than for the remaining shares, or to pay the same price but at different times in the merger period; contrasts with any-or-all bid.
Industry:Financial services
Interest that has been received on a loan, but that cannot be treated as a part of earnings yet, because the principal of the loan has not been outstanding long enough.
Industry:Financial services
Selling a put option at an exercise price that would represent a good investment by an option writer who believes a stock's value will fall, so that the writer cannot lose. If the stock price unexpectedly goes up, the option will not be exercised and the writer is at least ahead the amount of the premium received. If the stock loses value, as expected, the option will be exercised, and the writer has the stock at what he had earlier decided was originally a good buy, and he has the premium income in addition.
Industry:Financial services
An order that may take many different forms by an investor to a broker to sell a particular stock, bond, option, future, mutual fund, or other holding.
Industry:Financial services
The percentage of the people classified as unemployed as compared to the total labor force.
Industry:Financial services
The book value of an asset after allowing for depreciation and amortization.
Industry:Financial services
A municipal bond issue that is made up of serial bonds and term maturity bonds.
Industry:Financial services
Property that is not subject to any claims by creditors. For example, securities bought with cash instead of on margin and homes with mortgages paid off.
Industry:Financial services
A double bottom pattern in a price history that looks like the letter W. See: Technical analysis.
Industry:Financial services
Money back from the government when too much tax has been paid or withheld from a salary.
Industry:Financial services
