- Industrie: Financial services
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The U.K.'s six regional exchanges joined together in 1973 to form the stock exchange of Great Britain and Ireland, later named the LSE. The FTSE 100 index (known as the footsie) is its dominant index.
Industry:Financial services
Refers to over-the-counter trading. Best (highest) bid and best (lowest) offer, often used in the O.T.C. Market. See: In-line.
Industry:Financial services
Established in 1995, the Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange offers equity derivative products based on underlying instruments traded on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE).
Industry:Financial services
One who has bought a contract to establish a market position and who has not yet closed out this position through an offsetting sale; the opposite of short.
Industry:Financial services
Material information about a company that has not yet been made public. It is illegal for holders of this information to make trades based on it, however received.
Industry:Financial services
Established in 1973, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) is the only stock exchange in Malaysia.
Industry:Financial services
Bonds with a long current maturity. The "long bond" is the 30-year US Treasury bond.
Industry:Financial services
Trading by officers, directors, major stockholders, or others who hold private inside information allowing them to benefit from buying or selling stock.
Industry:Financial services
Measures the fatness of the tails of a probability distribution. A fat-tailed distribution has higher-than-normal chances of a big positive or negative realization. Kurtosis should not be confused with skewness, which measures the fatness of one tail. Kurtosis is sometimes referred to as the volatility of volatility.
Industry:Financial services
(1) Bonds or notes with a long current maturity. (2) A bond on which one of the coupon periods, usually the first, is longer than the other periods or the standard period.
Industry:Financial services
