- Industry: Financial services
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A hostile takeover prevention tactic that could destroy the target company. Taking on a large amount of debt to prevent the takeover might cause bankruptcy, for example.
Industry:Financial services
General offer made publicly and directly to a firm's shareholders to buy their stock at a price well above the current market price.
Industry:Financial services
A plane that shows the relationship between expected return and the beta coefficient of more than one factor.
Industry:Financial services
On an exchange, the member firm that is designated as the market maker (or dealer for a listed common stock). Member of a stock exchange who maintains a "fair and orderly market" in one or more securities. Only one specialist can be designated for a given stock, but dealers may be specialists for several stocks. In contrast, there can be multiple market makers in the OTC market. Major functions include executing limit orders on behalf of other exchange members for a portion of the floor broker's commission, and buying or selling for the specialist's own account to counteract temporary imbalances in supply and demand and thus prevent wide swings in stock prices.
Industry:Financial services
A spread whose option to be sold is trading at a higher premium than the option to be bought.
Industry:Financial services
A requirement that any investing strategy fall within the financial means and investment objectives of an investor.
Industry:Financial services
The current market price of the actual physical commodity. Also called cash price. Current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market, in which goods are sold for cash and delivered immediately. Antithesis of futures price.
Industry:Financial services
Commercial rating agencies' assessment of the credit and investment risk of securities.
Industry:Financial services
Account providing that a bank invest all the excess available funds at the close of each business day for the firm.
Industry:Financial services
