- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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The process of dividing each expense item of a given year by the same expense item in the base year. It allows assessment of changes in the relative importance of expense items over time and the behavior of expense items as sales change.
Industry:Financial services
A merger involving two or more firms in the same industry that are both at the same stage in the production cycle; that is, two or more competitors.
Industry:Financial services
A wholly owned U.S. government corporation within the Department of Housing & Urban Development. Ginnie Mae guarantees the timely payment of principal and interest on securities issued by approved servicers that are collateralized by FHA-issued, VA-guaranteed, or Farmers Home Administration (FmHA)-guaranteed mortgages.
Industry:Financial services
Refers to the corporate bond spread for a particular credit rating and expiry. For example, 10-year single A corporates were priced or trading at 130 basis points above Treasuries last night, or said diffrently, 130 is the generic credit spread for 10-year single A corporates.
Industry:Financial services
Stock price movement within a narrow price range over an extended period of time which creates the appearance of a relatively straight line on a graph of the stock's price.
Industry:Financial services
U.S. government-backed debt instruments, which are considered among the safest investments possible, including Treasury bonds, bills, and notes, and savings bonds.
Industry:Financial services
Accounting records that show all the financial statement accounts of a business.
Industry:Financial services
The simultaneous purchase and sale of two options that differ only in their expiration dates.
Industry:Financial services
