- Industry: Financial services
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The loan of securities between brokers, often to cover a client's short sale; or a loan secured by marketable securities.
Industry:Financial services
The risk that a central bank will impose foreign exchange regulations that will reduce or negate the value of FX contracts. Also refers to the risk of government default on a loan made to a country or guaranteed by it.
Industry:Financial services
Price that current shareholders pay for a share of stock in a rights offering.
Industry:Financial services
First law designed to regulate securities markets, requiring registration of securities and disclosure.
Industry:Financial services
A buyer's market in which supply exceeds demand, causing little trading activity and wide bid-ask spreads.
Industry:Financial services
Probabilities that are determined subjectively (for example, on the basis of judgment rather than statistical sampling).
Industry:Financial services
Organized exchanges plus over-the-counter markets in which securities are traded.
Industry:Financial services
The right of current shareholders of a corporation to buy newly issued shares before they are available to the public.
Industry:Financial services
Legislation to encourage the establishment of a national market system together with a system for nationwide clearing and settlement of securities transactions.
Industry:Financial services
