- Industry: Financial services
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An investor who has a large stake in a corporation and takes an active role in its management. Antithesis of hands-off investor.
Industry:Financial services
Tables found in newspapers listing prices, dividends, yields, price-earnings ratios, trading volume, and other important data on stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and futures contracts.
Industry:Financial services
A merger involving two or more firms in the same industry that are both at the same stage in the production cycle; that is, two or more competitors.
Industry:Financial services
Share price indexes for U.K. companies The denominator in the index formula is the market capitalization at the base date, adjusted for all capital changes affecting the particular index since the base date. See: Footsie (FTSE) (pronounced footsie).
Industry:Financial services
Also called dirty price; the price of a bond including accrued interest. Related: Flat price.
Industry:Financial services
Refers to the corporate bond spread for a particular credit rating and expiry. For example, 10-year single A corporates were priced or trading at 130 basis points above Treasuries last night, or said diffrently, 130 is the generic credit spread for 10-year single A corporates.
Industry:Financial services
Stock price movement within a narrow price range over an extended period of time which creates the appearance of a relatively straight line on a graph of the stock's price.
Industry:Financial services
A capital budget that under no circumstances can be violated.
Industry:Financial services
A government agency chartered in 1987 to bail out the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) by issuing bonds.
Industry:Financial services
A broker who provides clients an all-inclusive selection of services such as advice on security selection and financial planning.
Industry:Financial services
