- Industry: Financial services
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A dealer's or investor's interest in purchasing (not commitment to buy) securities that are still in the underwriting stage and are being registered by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Industry:Financial services
Forward rate minus expected future short-term interest rate.
Industry:Financial services
A statement of rates for an interest rate or currency swap.
Industry:Financial services
Ratios that measure a firm's ability to meet its short-term financial obligations on time, such as the ratio of current assets to current liabilities.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Technical or fundamental measurement that securities analysts use to forecast the market's direction, such as investment advisory sentiment, volume of stock trading, direction of interest rates, and buying or selling by corporate insiders.
Industry:Financial services
A derivatives market operated by the Italian Stock Exchange Council. It trades futures and options on the 30 index and individual stock options. See: Italian Stock Exchange.
Industry:Financial services
The risk that arises from the difficulty of selling an asset in a timely manner. It can be thought of as the difference between the "true value" of the asset and the likely price, less commissions.
Industry:Financial services
The expression in a graph of a utility function, where the horizontal axis measures risk and the vertical axis measures expected return. The curve connects all portfolios with the same utility.
Industry:Financial services
A biassed expectations theory that asserts that the implied forward rates will not be a pure estimate of the market's expectations of future interest rates because they embody a liquidity premium.
Industry:Financial services
Claim of a financial intermediary; the intermediary relends funds to the deficit unit to enable it to acquire real assets.
Industry:Financial services
