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A delay of typically about three months between the time the weighted-average coupon of an MBS pool crosses the threshold for refinancing and observation of an acceleration in prepayment speed is observed.
Industry:Financial services
The ratio of long-term debt to total capitalization.
Industry:Financial services
Organisations that invest, including insurance companies, depository institutions, pension funds, investment companies, mutual funds, and endowment funds.
Industry:Financial services
Strategy used by a firm to stall payments, normally in response to exchange rate projections.
Industry:Financial services
Indicator of financial leverage. Shows long-term debt as a proportion of the capital available. Determined by dividing long-term debt by the sum of long-term debt, preferred stock and common stockholder's equity.
Industry:Financial services
The gradual domination of financial markets by institutional investors, as opposed to individual investors. This process has occurred throughout the industrialised world.
Industry:Financial services
A capitalization ratio comparing long-term debt to shareholders' equity.
Industry:Financial services
Notes issued by a federal agency whose obligations are guaranteed by the full-faith-and-credit of the government, even though the agency's responsibilities are not necessarily those of the US government.
Industry:Financial services
Economic indicators that follow rather than precede the country's overall pace of economic activity. See also: Leading indicators and coincident indicators.
Industry:Financial services
Financial plan covering two or more years of future operations.
Industry:Financial services
