- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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Uncertainty about the rate at which revenues or costs denominated in one currency can be converted into another currency.
Industry:Financial services
Bonds on which the coupon is set approximately equal to the bonds' yield to maturity at the time of their issuance.
Industry:Financial services
An individual or firm licenced by customs authorities to enter and clear imported goods through customs. The broker represents the importer in dealings with the customs authorities.
Industry:Financial services
The date prescribed in the unclaimed property law in most states for determining the items of property that must be turned over to the state. See: Escheat.
Industry:Financial services
An experienced financial analyst who has passed examinations in economics, financial accounting, portfolio management, security analysis, and standards of conduct given by the institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.
Industry:Financial services
A loan agreement that grants to the lender a lien on property other than real estate. Chattel is personal or movable property.
Industry:Financial services
A securities exchange created in the early 1970s for the public trading of standardised option contracts. Primary place stock options, foreign currency options, and index options (S&P 100, 500, and OTC 250 index)
Industry:Financial services
The second largest futures exchange in the US, and was a pioneer in the development of financial futures and options.
Industry:Financial services
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures. Founded in 1898 as a not-for-profit corporation, in November 2000 CME became the first U.S. financial exchange to demutualize and become a shareholder-owned corporation. Its futures and options on futures trade on CME's trading floors, on its GLOBEX electronic trading platform and through privately negotiated transactions. CME has four major product areas based on interest rates (including Eurodollar futures, the world's most actively traded futures contract), stock indexes (such as the (S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures), foreign exchange and commodities.
Industry:Financial services
A major exchange trading only stocks, with 90% of trades taking place on an automated execution system, called MAX.
Industry:Financial services
