- Industry: Financial services
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Calculating the present value of a future amount. Discounting is opposite to compounding.
Industry:Financial services
The length of time needed to recoup the present value of an investment.
Industry:Financial services
An adjustment of a stock's price as speculators bid the price up or down in anticipation of news about the company, whether good or bad.
Industry:Financial services
Compounding the time value of money for separate time intervals.
Industry:Financial services
Any deviation from the conditions stipulated in a letter of credit. Discrepancies void letter of credit protection.
Industry:Financial services
A random variable that can take only a certain specified set of individual possible values-for example, the positive integers 1, 2, 3, . . .
Industry:Financial services
Variable like 1, 2, 3. Bond ratings are examples of discrete classifications.
Industry:Financial services
Freedom given to the floor broker by an investor to use his judgement regarding the execution of an order. Discretion can be limited, as in the case of a limit order that gives the floor broker 1/8 or 1/4 point from the stated limit price to use his judgement in executing the order. Discretion can also be unlimited, as in the case of a market-not-held order. See also: Market Not Held Order.
Industry:Financial services
Accounts over which an individual or organization, other than the person in whose name the account is carried, exercises trading authority or control.
Industry:Financial services
Cash flow that is available after the funding of all positive net present value (NPV) capital investment projects; it is available for paying cash dividends, repurchasing common stock, retiring debt, and so on.
Industry:Financial services
