- Industry: Financial services
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In investment banking, the rate at which new deals are referred to a brokerage firm.
Industry:Financial services
Stock subject to merger or acquisition, either publicly announced or rumored.
Industry:Financial services
Percentage of face value at which a bond is quoted.
Industry:Financial services
An entity that stands ready and willing to buy a security for its own account (at its bid price) or sell from its own account (at its ask price). Individual or firm acting as a principal in a securities transaction. Principals are market makers in securities, and thus trade for their own account and risk. Antithesis of broker. See: Agency.
Industry:Financial services
The return realised on a portfolio for any evaluation period, including (1) the change in market value of the portfolio and (2) any distributions made from the portfolio during that period.
Industry:Financial services
Overnight, collateralized loan from a money market bank made to a dealer financing his position by borrowing.
Industry:Financial services
Similar to the reverse repurchase agreement-a simultaneous agreement to sell a security held in a portfolio with purchase of a similar security at a future date at an agreed-upon price.
Industry:Financial services
Where trader's specialising in particular commodities buy and sell assets for their own accounts.
Industry:Financial services
The dollar equivalent of the safety cushion for a portfolio in a contingent immunisation strategy.
Industry:Financial services
