- Industri: Financial services
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Joint ownership of property or securities by a husband and wife where, upon the death of one, the property goes to the survivor.
Industry:Financial services
The order of repayment. In the event of bankruptcy, senior debt must be repaid before subordinated debt is repaid.
Industry:Financial services
(1) The gap between bid and ask prices of a stock or other security. (2) The simultaneous purchase and sale of separate futures or options contracts for the same commodity for delivery in different months. Also known as a straddle. (3) Difference between the price at which an underwriter buys an issue from a firm and the price at which the underwriter sells it to the public. (4) The price an issuer pays above a benchmark fixed-income yield to borrow money.
Industry:Financial services
Liquidating a position and simultaneously reinstating a position in another futures contract of the same type.
Industry:Financial services
Account registration in which two or more individuals own a certain proportion of an account. Each tenant's proportion is distributable as part of the owners estate, so that if one of the account holders dies, that owner's heirs are entitled to that proportional share of the account.
Industry:Financial services
A market that reacts to a great extent to good or bad news.
Industry:Financial services
Also called margin income, the difference between income and cost. For a depository institution, the difference between the assets it invests in (loans and securities) and the cost of its funds (deposits and other sources).
Industry:Financial services
A sequence of transactions in which exercise of one option creates one or more additional options. Investment-disinvestment, entry-exit, expansion-contraction, and suspension-reactivation decisions are switching options.
Industry:Financial services
Analysis of the effect on a project's profitability of changes in sales, cost, and so on.
Industry:Financial services
