- Industry: Financial services
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Short-term debt instruments?such as commercial paper, banker's acceptances, and Treasury bills?that mature in less than one year. Also known as money market instruments or cash reserves.
Industry:Financial services
An order which can be executed only if another event occurs; i.e. "sell Oct 45 call 7-1/4 with stock 52 or lower".
Industry:Financial services
Refers to the efficient management of cash in a business in order to put the cash to work more quickly and to keep the cash in applications that produce income, such as the use of lock boxes for payments.
Industry:Financial services
Under ERISA, a firm is liable to its pension plan participants for up to 39% of the net worth of the firm.
Industry:Financial services
Very short-maturity bills that the Treasury occasionally sells because its cash balances are down and it needs money for a few days.
Industry:Financial services
Enables preferred stockholders to vote when the company fails to satisfy the agreement between itself and the preferred stockholders.
Industry:Financial services
Also called spot markets, these are markets that involve the immediate delivery of a security or instrument. Related: Derivative markets.
Industry:Financial services
The process of accumulating the time value of money forward in time on a continuous, or instantaneous, basis. Interest is earned constantly, and at each instant, the interest that accrues immediately begins earning interest on itself.
Industry:Financial services
Often used in risk arbitrage. Proposal, either hostile or friendly, to acquire a target company through the payment of cash for the stock of the target. Compare to exchange offer.
Industry:Financial services
A random value that can take any fractional value within specified ranges, as contrasted with a discrete variable.
Industry:Financial services
