- Industry: Financial services
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A financing technique in which a company decreases its risk by creating separate partnerships, rather than subsidiaries, for certain holdings and solicits outside investors to take on the risk. In order to qualify as a special-purpose entity, whose financial results are not carried on the company's books, the unit must meet strict accounting guidelines. Compare to subsidary.
Industry:Financial services
Commercial rating agencies' assessment of the credit and investment risk of securities.
Industry:Financial services
The sum of negotiated current liabilities and temporary spontaneous current liabilities.
Industry:Financial services
Taxation system that results in taxing the income going to shareholders twice.
Industry:Financial services
Liquidation of a margin account after a customer has failed to bring an account to a required level by producing additional equity after a margin call. The selling of securities by a broker when a customer fails to pay for them. The complete sale of all securities in a new issue.
Industry:Financial services
A large securities transaction that is divided into smaller orders that are spread out over some period of time to avoid large fluctuations in the market price.
Industry:Financial services
Temporary halt in trading in a particular security, in advance of a major news announcement or to correct an imbalance of orders to buy and sell.
Industry:Financial services
The percentage of a portfolio's total net assets or equity holdings in its ten largest securities positions. As this percentage rises, a portfolio's returns are likely to be more volatile because they are more dependent on the fortunes of fewer companies.
Industry:Financial services
Maximum rate of growth a firm can sustain without increasing financial leverage.
Industry:Financial services
