- Industry: Financial services
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A secured short-term loan to purchase inventory. The three basic forms are a blanket inventory lien, a trust receipt, and field warehousing financing.
Industry:Financial services
Arrangement in which a local firm in the host country produces goods in accordance with another firm's (the licencing firm's) specifications; as the goods are sold, the local firm can retain part of the earnings.
Industry:Financial services
A put option that has a strike price higher than the underlying futures price, or a call option with a strike price lower than the underlying futures price. For example, if the March COMEX silver futures contract is trading at $6 an ounce, a March call with a strike price of $5.50 would be considered in the money by $0.50 an ounce. Related: Put. Antithesis of out-of-the-money.
Industry:Financial services
The ratio of annual sales to average inventory, which measures the speed at which inventory is produced and sold. Low turnover is an unhealthy sign, indicating excess stocks and/or poor sales.
Industry:Financial services
A security interest in one or more assets that lenders hold in exchange for secured debt financing.
Industry:Financial services
Often used in risk arbitrage. Company that has become the target of a takeover, and whose stock has now become a speculative issue.
Industry:Financial services
A derivative instrument whose coupon rate is linked to the market rate of interest in an inverse relationship.
Industry:Financial services
An annuity that pays a fixed amount for the lifetime of the annuitant.
Industry:Financial services
A variable-rate security whose coupon rate increases as a benchmark interest rate declines.
Industry:Financial services
The lifetime of a product or business, from its creation to its demise or transformation.
Industry:Financial services
