- Industry: Financial services
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A group representing firms that have claims on a company facing bankruptcy or extreme financial difficulty.
Industry:Financial services
Securities that represent equity ownership in a company. Common shares let an investor vote on such matters as the election of directors. They also give the holder a share in a company's profits via dividend payments or the capital appreciation of the security. Units of ownership of a public corporation with junior status to the claims of secured/unsecured creditors, bondholders and preferred shareholders in the event of liquidation.
Industry:Financial services
Also called the broker loan rate , the interest rate that banks charge brokers to finance margin loans to investors. The broker charges the investor the call money rate plus a servicecharge.
Industry:Financial services
A convertible security that is traded like an equity issue because the optioned common stock is trading at a high price.
Industry:Financial services
The process by which a group attempting to circumvent certain provisions of the Williams Act gradually acquires shares of a target company in the open market.
Industry:Financial services
An option contract that gives its holder the right (but not the obligation) to purchase a specified number of shares of the underlying stock at the given strike price, on or before the expiration date of the contract.
Industry:Financial services
Securities transaction in which the same broker acts as agent for both sides of the trade; a legal practice only if the broker first offers the securities publicly at a price higher than the bid.
Industry:Financial services
