- 行业: Financial services
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A technical chart formation used to make market predictions by following the price movements of securities.
Industry:Financial services
Prices occurring before or at the decision to trade.
Industry:Financial services
A method of paying income tax in which the employer deducts a portion of an employee's monthly salary to remit to the IRS.
Industry:Financial services
Method of calculating finance charges based on the account balance at the end of the previous month.
Industry:Financial services
Attempts by municipal bond underwriting businesses to gain influence with political officials who decide which underwriters are awarded the municipality's business.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Cost to become a player in a stock in an inordinately aggressive market (i.e.,locking on one side, size or price concessions); trader becomes aggressive in order to break the domination of customer activity by another dealer.
Industry:Financial services
The loss of cash resulting from a swap into higher-priced bonds or the need/willingness of a bank or other borrower to pay a higher rate of interest to get funds. Used in the context of general equities. (1) When an investor who wants to buy a stock at a particular price hesitates and the stock begins to rise; instead of letting the stock go, he "pays up" to buy the shares at the higher prevailing price. (2) Buy shares in a high-quality company at what is felt to be a high, but supportable, price due to its quality.
Industry:Financial services
Compares a stock's market value to the value of total assets less total liabilities (book value). Determined by dividing current stock price by common stockholder equity per share (book value), adjusted for stock splits. Also called Market-to-Book.
Industry:Financial services
A method of making payment that is used to maintain control over payments made on behalf of the firm by personnel in noncentral locations. The payer's bank delivers the payable through draft to the payer, which must approve it and return it to the bank before payment can be received.
Industry:Financial services
Increase or decrease in the closing price of a security compared to the previous day's closing price.
Industry:Financial services
