- Industri: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
- Company Profile:
World's leading financial information-service, news, and media company.
Used for listed equity securities. Indicates that at a given time (usually before the opening of a stock/market or at expiration time), there are more buyers/sellers in the marketplace, usually with market orders. See: Imbalance of orders.
Industry:Financial services
A company that owns or has controlling interest in two or more banks and/or other bank holding companies.
Industry:Financial services
A rapid rise in the price of a stock resulting from heavy buying, which usually creates the market condition for a rapid fall in the price.
Industry:Financial services
Purchasing the stocks in the S&P 500 in the same proportion as the index to achieve the same return.
Industry:Financial services
A term used synonymously with paper money or currency issued by a bank. Notes are, in effect a promise to pay the bearer on demand the amount stated on the face of the note. Today, only the Federal Reserve Banks are authorized to issue bank notes, i.e. Federal Reserve notes, in the United States.
Industry:Financial services
The amount of money available to buy securities, determined by adding the total cash held in brokerage accounts and the amount that could be spent if securities were margined to the limit.
Industry:Financial services
The formulationand issuance by authorized agencies of specific rules or regulations, under govering law, for the conduct and structure of banking.
Industry:Financial services
Purchase of a controlling interest (or percent of shares) of a company's stock. A leveraged buy out is effected with borrowed money.
Industry:Financial services
A series of unexpected cash withdrawals caused by a sudden decline in depositor confidence or fear that the bank will be closed by the chartering agency, i.e. many depositors withfraw cash almost simultaneously. Since the cash reserve a bank keeps on hand is only a small fraction of its depoits, a large number of withdrawals in a short period of time can deplete available cash and force the bank to close and possibly go out of business.
Industry:Financial services
