- Industry: Financial services
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Mortgages in which monthly payments consist of principal and interest. During the early part of the loan, portions of these payments are provided by a third party to reduce the borrower's monthly payments.
Industry:Financial services
A convention used for quoting bids and offers for Treasury bills in terms of annualised yield, based on a 360-day year.
Industry:Financial services
Market in which the supply exceeds the demand, creating lower prices. Antithesis of seller's_market.
Industry:Financial services
Used for listed equity securities. Indicates that at a given time (usually before the opening of a stock/market or at expiration time), there are more buyers/sellers in the marketplace, usually with market orders. See: Imbalance of orders.
Industry:Financial services
A company that owns or has controlling interest in two or more banks and/or other bank holding companies.
Industry:Financial services
A rapid rise in the price of a stock resulting from heavy buying, which usually creates the market condition for a rapid fall in the price.
Industry:Financial services
Purchasing the stocks in the S&P 500 in the same proportion as the index to achieve the same return.
Industry:Financial services
A term used synonymously with paper money or currency issued by a bank. Notes are, in effect a promise to pay the bearer on demand the amount stated on the face of the note. Today, only the Federal Reserve Banks are authorised to issue bank notes, i.e. Federal Reserve notes, in the United States.
Industry:Financial services
The amount of money available to buy securities, determined by adding the total cash held in brokerage accounts and the amount that could be spent if securities were margined to the limit.
Industry:Financial services
