- Industry: Financial services
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World's leading financial information-service, news, and media company.
Indicates a one-way market if 70 were bid in the market and there was no offer, the quote would be "70 bid without.".
Industry:Financial services
Attempting to complete the remaining part of a trade, by finding either buyers or sellers for the rest.
Industry:Financial services
Defined as the difference between current assets and current liabilities (excluding short-term debt). Current assets may or may not include cash and cash equivalents, depending on the company.
Industry:Financial services
The deployment of current assets and current liabilities so as to maximize short-term liquidity.
Industry:Financial services
Working capital expressed as a percentage of sales.
Industry:Financial services
Control of a corporation by a shareholder or shareholders having less than 51% voting interest because of the wide dispersion of share ownership.
Industry:Financial services
A multilateral development finance agency created by the 1944 Bretton Woods, (New Hampshire) negotiations. It makes loans to developing countries for social overhead capital projects that are guaranteed by the recipient country. See: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Industry:Financial services
The part of world wealth that is traded and is therefore accessible to investors.
Industry:Financial services
A multilateral agency that administers world trade agreements, fosters trade relations among nations, and solves trade disputes among member countries.
Industry:Financial services
Program by which a corporation buys back its own shares in the open market. It is usually done when shares are undervalued. Since repurchase reduces the number of shares outstanding and thus increases earnings per share, it tends to elevate the market value of the remaining shares held by stockholders.
Industry:Financial services
