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A piece of property or asset given from one living person to another.
Industry:Financial services
A term used to describe a trader selling off a big position in a stock.
Industry:Financial services
A contract that obligates a purchaser of a project's output to make cash payments to the project in all events, even if no product is offered for sale.
Industry:Financial services
The required return in capital budgeting. For example, if a project has an expected rate of return higher than the hurdle rate, the project may be accepted.
Industry:Financial services
The Helsinki Exchanges (HEX Ltd., Helsinki Securities and Derivatives Exchange and Clearing House) was formed at the beginning of 1998 following the merger of the Helsinki Stock Exchange Ltd. and SOM Ltd., the Securities and Derivatives Exchange, and the Clearing House.
Industry:Financial services
A type of mortgage that through a lien gives precedence to the lender of the first mortgage over all other lenders in case of default.
Industry:Financial services
A source of funds that a firm must take overt action to arrange and that carries an interest cost.
Industry:Financial services
A measure of the bias in fractional Brownian motion. H=0.50 for Brownian motion. 0.50<H< to equivalent is D, series, time a of dimension fractal The distributions. Paretian Stable for exponent characteristic the alpha, equal Hurst inverse system. mean-reverting or anti-persistent, an 0<H
Industry:Financial services
A theory that stock prices move in the same direction as the hemlines of women's dresses. For example, short skirts (1920s and 1960s) are symbolic of bullish markets and long skirts (1930s and 1940s) are symbolic of bearish markets.
Industry:Financial services
The first day, varying by contracts and exchanges, on which notices of intent to deliver actual financial instruments or physical commodities against futures are authorized.
Industry:Financial services
