- Industry: Financial services
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Applies to derivative products. Type of security, usually issued with another security, such as a bond or stock, that entitles the holder to buy a proportionate amount of common stock at a specified price, usually higher than the market price at the time of issuance. Warrant.
Industry:Financial services
Exchanges on which securities, options, and futures contracts are traded by members for their own accounts and for the accounts of customers.
Industry:Financial services
Refers to over-the-counter trading. Having sold stock to another dealer before making the present offering.
Industry:Financial services
An unsecured bond that ranks after secured debt, after debenture bonds, and often after some general creditors in its claim on assets and earnings. Related: Debenture bond, mortgage bond, collateral trust bonds.
Industry:Financial services
A plot on a graph of the excess return on a security over the risk-free rate as a function of the excess return on the market. The slope of this line is the security's beta.
Industry:Financial services
A municipal bond with interest paid by the taxes of the community benefiting from the bond-funded project.
Industry:Financial services
A wholly or partially owned company that is part of a large corporation. A foreign subsidiary is a separately incorporated entity under the host country's law. A subsidiary's financial results are carried on the parent company's books.
Industry:Financial services
A federal agency that regulates the US financial markets. The SEC also oversees the securities industry and promotes full disclosure in order to protect the investing public against malpractice in the securities markets.
Industry:Financial services
Unavailability of a futures contract in a particular commodity or maturity date because of contract executions and limited offerings.
Industry:Financial services
Debt over which senior debt takes priority. In the event of bankruptcy, subordinated debtholders receive payment only after senior debt claims are paid in full.
Industry:Financial services
