- Industry: Financial services
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The period beginning at the start of the calendar year up to the current date.
Industry:Financial services
A short call option position in which the writer does not own an equivalent position in the underlying security represented by his option contracts.
Industry:Financial services
A power company that owns or operates facilities used for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy, which is regulated at state and federal levels.
Industry:Financial services
The right of current shareholders of a corporation to buy newly issued shares before they are available to the public.
Industry:Financial services
The percentage rate of return paid on a stock in the form of dividends, or the effective rate of interest paid on a bond or note.
Industry:Financial services
A mathematical expression that assigns a value to all possible choices. In portfolio theory, the utility function expresses the preferences of economic entities with respect to perceived risk and expected return.
Industry:Financial services
Creating a more or less standard investment instrument such as the mortgage pass-through security, by pooling assets to back the instrument. Also refers to the replacement of nonmarketable loans and/or cash flows provided by financial intermediaries with negotiable securities issued in the public capital markets.
Industry:Financial services
The advantage gained by purchasing convertible securities instead of common stock, which equals the difference between the rates of return of the convertible security and the common shares.
Industry:Financial services
A municipal bond issued to finance the construction of public utility services. These bonds are repaid from the operating revenues the project produces after the utility is finished.
Industry:Financial services
