- المجال: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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An assurance by a mutual fund shareholder that a certain amount of money will be invested monthly, in exchange for lower sales charges. In mergers, a preliminary merger agreement between companies after significant negotiations.
Industry:Financial services
A corporation's dividend that is declared in violation of its charter and/or of state laws, typically because of the way it is calculated.
Industry:Financial services
The attempt to reduce risk by investing in more than one nation. By diversifying across nations whose economic cycles are not perfectly correlated, investors can typically reduce the variability of their returns.
Industry:Financial services
A certificate issued by the court evidencing the appointment of an executor of estate.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of finance. absence of cash flow needed to fulfill financial debts and meet obligations. In the context of investments, describes a lightly traded investment such as a stock or bond that is not easily converted into cash.
Industry:Financial services
A corporation owned by the World Bank that produces a number of well-known stock indexes for emerging markets. Its major role is to provide financing for projects in less developed countries.
Industry:Financial services
A document used by security holder to accompany certificates surrendered in an exchange or other corporate action.
Industry:Financial services
Used for listed equity securities. Too many market orders of one kind-buy or to sell or limit orders to buy up or sell down, without matching orders of the opposite kind. An imbalance usually follows a dramatic event such as a takeover, research recommendation, or death of a key executive, or a government ruling that will significantly affect the company's business. If it occurs before the stock exchange opens, trading in the stock is delayed. If it occurs during the trading day, the specialist halts and then suspends trading (with floor governor's approval) until enough matching orders can be found to make an orderly market.
Industry:Financial services
A subsidiary incorporated in the US, usually in Delaware, whose sole purpose once was to issue debentures overseas and invest the proceeds in foreign operations, with the interest paid to foreign bondholders not subject to US withholding tax. Elimination of the corporate withholding tax has ended the need for this type of subsidiary.
Industry:Financial services
Privately placed common stock, so-called because the SEC requires a letter from the purchaser stating that the stock is not intended for resale.
Industry:Financial services
