- Industrie: Financial services
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Public sale of previously issued securities held by large investors, usually corporations or institutions, as distinguished from a primary distribution, where the seller is the issuing corporation. The sale is handled off the NYSE, by a securities firm or a group of firms, and the shares are usually offered at a fixed price related to the current market price of the stock.
Industry:Financial services
A temporary fall in performance, often describing consistently falling security prices for several weeks or months.
Industry:Financial services
Bond that can be subdivided into a series of zero-coupon bonds.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Customer or trader who is actively involved in a particular stock or the market in general.
Industry:Financial services
Often used in risk arbitrage. Technique used by an acquiring company to attempt to gain control of a takeover target. The acquirer tries to persuade the shareholders of the target company that the present management of the firm should be ousted n favor of a slate of directors favorable to the acquirer, thus enabling the acquiring company to gain control of the company without paying a premium price.
Industry:Financial services
Notes issued by states or municipalities to finance current operations in anticipation of future tax receipts.
Industry:Financial services
(1) Procedure for selling blocks of seasoned issues of stocks. (2) More generally, sale of already issued stock.
Industry:Financial services
Insurance coverage available to new exporters and small businesses.
Industry:Financial services
Securities that redistribute the cash flows from the underlying generic MBS collateral into the principal and interest components of the MBS to enhance their attractiveness to different groups of investors.
Industry:Financial services
Trading in high, uncalculated risk usually refers to actions of amateur investors.
Industry:Financial services
