- Industry: Financial services
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Refers to an order to buy or sell that can be executed without confirmation for some fixed period. Also, a synonym for company.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Said of a stock that has reached a price at which analysts think the underlying company's fundamental earnings power has been fully recognised by the market.
Industry:Financial services
The overall conventions, rules, and procedures that define accepted accounting practise at a particular time in the U.S.
Industry:Financial services
Notification by a brokerage house that a customer's margin account is below the minimum maintenance level. The client must provide more cash or equity, or the account will be liquidated.
Industry:Financial services
A clause in a research report or any published document, that attempts to absolve the writer of responsibility for the accuracy of information provided.
Industry:Financial services
Trading strategies that generate abnormal returns based on firm-specific characteristics.
Industry:Financial services
As defined by FASB No. 52, an affiliate's functional currency is the currency of the primary economic environment in which the affiliate generates and expends cash.
Industry:Financial services
A trust in which a principal amount is placed in a trust on the death of person A and is transferred to A's grandchildren when A's children die. The income from the trust goes to the children of person A while they survive.
Industry:Financial services
An investment banking firm whose business it is to underwrite stock or bond issues and offer the securities to the public.
Industry:Financial services
