- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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A fund to which money is added on a regular basis that is used to ensure investor confidence that promised payments will be made and that is used to redeem debt securities or preferred stock issues.
Industry:Financial services
Collaboration between two or more companies designed to achieve some corporate objective. May include international licensing agreements, management contracts, or joint ventures.
Industry:Financial services
The weight of an empty container and any packaging materials used in the container.
Industry:Financial services
Collecting stock and bond certificates for their scarcity, rather than for their value as securities.
Industry:Financial services
A condition included in some corporate bond indentures that requires the issuer to retire a specified portion of debt each year. Any principal due at maturity is called the balloon maturity.
Industry:Financial services
Acquisition of another firm in order to realize some operational benefits which will result in increased earnings.
Industry:Financial services
The profit earned on short-term trades of securities held for less than one year, subject to tax at normal income tax rates.
Industry:Financial services
Costs associated with locating a counterparty to a trade, including explicit costs (such as advertising) and implicit costs (such as the value of time). Related: Information costs.
Industry:Financial services
