- Industri: Financial services
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The use of debt financing, or property of rising or falling at a proportionally greater amount than comparable investments. For example, an option is said to have high leverage compared to the underlying stock because a given price change in the stock may result in a greater increase or decrease in the value of the option.
Industry:Financial services
The global network of government and commercial institutions within which currency exchange rates are determined.
Industry:Financial services
A group of shareholders who, because of their personal leverage, seek to invest in corporations that maintain a compatible degree of corporate leverage.
Industry:Financial services
Economic environment in which the costs of labor and other resources used for production encourage firms to use substitute inputs that less costly.
Industry:Financial services
A mutual fund that invests strictly in securities markets throughout the world, excluding the United States. A global fund, on the other hand, invests in both foreign and domestic securities.
Industry:Financial services
Measures of the relative value of stockholders, capitalization, and creditors obligations, and of the firm's ability to pay financing charges. Value of firm's debt to the total value of the firm (debt plus stockholder capitalization).
Industry:Financial services
Opportunity costs incurred prior to the bankruptcy process such as the loss of sales or financing.
Industry:Financial services
ISO is not an acronym but the name of a standards setting organization chartered by the United Nations. The name ISO is derived from Greek and connotes equality, i.e. each member country regardless of size or wealth gets only one vote. The ISO 4217 are the standard three letter currency codes. These codes are usually composed of the ISO 3166 two letter country code plus a third letter representing the name of the currency.
Industry:Financial services
Making transactions to adjust (rebalance) a firm's leverage ratio to a target ratio.
Industry:Financial services
