- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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An investment banker's professional opinion as to the price an acquiring firm is offering in a takeover or merger.
Industry:Financial services
An agreement to exchange stipulated amounts of one currency for another currency at one or more future dates.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of general equities, may not be able to produce as indicated in one's advertised market, due to less help (than anticipated) from other parties or due to changing market conditions.
Industry:Financial services
The percentage of a portfolio's investments represented by stocks or American Depository Receipts (ADRs) of companies based outside the United States.
Industry:Financial services
A contract that binds a broker to a brokerage firm by offering the broker commissions and bonuses, but penalises the broker if he or she goes to work for another firm.
Industry:Financial services
A sudden drop in a stock's price resulting from failed or poor business deals gone bad or falling through.
Industry:Financial services
Graph that displays financial and political risk by intervals on which countries may be compared according to risk ratings.
Industry:Financial services
A large payment to a senior employee who is forced into retirement or fired as a result of a takeover or simular development.
Industry:Financial services
Bonds that at the time of issue were considered investment grade but that have dropped below that rating over time.
Industry:Financial services
Central governments of foreign countries, including all departments and agencies of national governments; central banks, exchange authorities, and all fiscal agents of foreign national governments that undertake activities similar to those of a treasury, central bank, or stabilisation fund; diplomatic and consular establishments of foreign national governments; and any international or regional organization, including subordinate and affiliate agencies, created by treaty or convention between sovereign states.
Industry:Financial services
