- Industry: Financial services
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Canvassing by the desk of primary dealers to determine the inventory and maturities of their Treasury securities. The desk then decides whether to buy or sell certain issues (coupons) in order to add or withdraw reserves.
Industry:Financial services
Procedures a firm follows in attempting to collect accounts receivables.
Industry:Financial services
In bonds, notes, or other fixed income securities, the stated percentage rate of interest, usually paid twice a year.
Industry:Financial services
The ratio of a company's accounts receivable to its average daily sales, which gives the average number of days it takes the company to convert receivables into cash.
Industry:Financial services
A statistical measure of the degree to which random variables move together. A positive covariance implies that one variable is above (below) its mean value when the other variable is above (below) its mean value.
Industry:Financial services
The combination of all the individual opinions about a stock's or security's value.
Industry:Financial services
Provisions in a bond indenture or preferred stock agreement that require the bond or preferred stock issuer to take certain specified actions (affirmative covenants) or to refrain from taking certain specified actions (negative covenants).
Industry:Financial services
A bank that ranks just below a lead manager in a syndicated Eurocredit or international bond issue. Comanagers may assist the lead manager bank in the pricing and issue of the instrument.
Industry:Financial services
The purchase of a contract to offset a previously established short position.
Industry:Financial services
Applies to derivative products. Arrangement of options involving two long or two short positions with different expiration dates or strike (exercise) prices. See: Straddle.
Industry:Financial services
