- Industry: Financial services
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The risk that new or changed legislation will have a large positive or negative effect on an investment.
Industry:Financial services
The spread between the interest rate offered in two sectors of the bond market for issues of the same maturity.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Real interest in trading as compared to a profile stance. See: Natural.
Industry:Financial services
An exchange of one bond for another based on the manager's projection of a realignment of spreads between sectors of the bond market.
Industry:Financial services
A benchmark index that includes all agency-guaranteed securities with coupons that periodically adjust based on a spread over a published index.
Industry:Financial services
A database that distributes information from all the major stock exchanges in the United States.
Industry:Financial services
A benchmark index made up of the Lehman Brothers Government/Corporate Bond Index, Mortgage-Backed Securities Index, and Asset-Backed Securities Index, including securities that are of investment-grade quality or better, have at least one year to maturity, and have an outstanding par value of at least $100 million.
Industry:Financial services
Electronic communications network linking the trading floors of seven registered exchanges to permit trading among them in stocks listed on either the NYSE or AMEX and one or more regional exchanges. Through ITS, any broker or market maker on the floor of any participating exchange can reach other participants for an execution whenever the nationwide quote shows a better price available. A floor broker on the exchange can enter an ITS order to assure excecution of all of an offering or bid, instead of splitting it with competing brokers.
Industry:Financial services
