- Industry: Financial services
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A default on debt and obligations by a major financial institution that disrupts the stability of the economic system.
Industry:Financial services
A term used in technical analysis to refer to the rise of a stock's price, a drop, and then a rise back to the same level as the original rise.
Industry:Financial services
Ability to borrow. The amount a firm can borrow up to the point where the firm value no longer increases.
Industry:Financial services
A stock buying strategy that doubles the risk when the price moves in the opposite direction from the direction the investor hoped for. For example, an investor with confidence in ABC buys 1000 shares at $100 and another 1000 shares when the price declines to $90.
Industry:Financial services
A trading day when of two related classes of options and futures expire, resulting in a variety of arbitrage strategies to close out positions.
Industry:Financial services
The amount of borrowing that leasing displaces. Firms that do a lot of leasing are curtailed in their debt capacity.
Industry:Financial services
A sinking fund provision that may allow repurchase of twice the required number of bonds at the sinking fund call price.
Industry:Financial services
An asset requiring fixed dollar payments, such as a government or corporate bond.
Industry:Financial services
Amplification of the return earned on equity when an investment or firm is financed partially with borrowed money.
Industry:Financial services
The best known US index of stocks. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials including, stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow, as it is called, is a barometer of how shares of the largest US companies are performing. There are hundreds of investment indexes around the world for stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities.
Industry:Financial services
