- Industri: Financial services
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In a rights issue, agreement that the underwriter will purchase any stock not purchased by investors.
Industry:Financial services
A version of the dividend discount model that applies a different expected dividend rate depending on a company's life-cycle phase: growth phase, transition phase, or maturity phase.
Industry:Financial services
A business transaction, such as a limited partnership, that is entered into for the sake of avoiding tax.
Industry:Financial services
An agreement between a corporation and investment firm that the firm will purchase whatever part of a stock issue that is offered in a rights offering that is not subscribed to in the two- to four- week standby period.
Industry:Financial services
A rule predicting that stock and bond prices will fall following three increases in the discount rate by the Federal Reserve. This is a result of increased costs of borrowing for companies and the increased attractiveness of money market funds and CDs over stocks and bonds as a result of the higher interest rates.
Industry:Financial services
Amount paid to an underwriter who agrees to purchase any stock that is not purchased by public investors in a rights offering.
Industry:Financial services
The point when the weighted-average coupon of an MBS is at a level to induce homeowners to prepay the mortgage in order to refinance to a lower-rate mortgage, generally reached when the weighted-average coupon of the MBS is 2 percentage points or more above currently available mortgage rates.
Industry:Financial services
A discount broker who charges per share traded, and reduces the per unit charge as the number of shares traded increases, as opposed to a dealer who charges a percentage of the dollar amount of the trade.
Industry:Financial services
An organization formed as a depository for primarily consumer savings. Savings and loan associations and savings banks are thrift institutions.
Industry:Financial services
