- Industry: Financial services
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In a typical exchange offer, "old" shares of the target company are exchanged for "new shares".
Industry:Financial services
In the context of securities, this refers to the practice of institutional investors paying the full purchase price for securities in cash.
Industry:Financial services
These laws enable shareholders to sell their stakes to a "controllin" shareholder at a price based on the highest price of recently acquired shares. This works something like Fair-Price provisions extended to nontakeover situations. A few states have these laws.
Industry:Financial services
The process by which the terms of an option contract are fulifilled through the payment or receipt in dollars of the amount by which the option is in-the-money as opposed to delivering or receiving the underlying stock.
Industry:Financial services
Nominee name for The Depository Trust Company, a large clearing house that holds shares in its name for banks, brokers and institutions in order to expedite the sale and transfer of stock.
Industry:Financial services
The Law of Large Numbers states that as a sample of independent, identically distributed random numbers approaches infinity, its probability density function approaches the normal distribution. See: Normal Distribution.
Industry:Financial services
Refers to a zero-coupon US Treasury issue that is sold at a deep discount from the face value and pays no coupon interest during its lifetime, but returns the full face value at maturity.
Industry:Financial services
Also called a time deposit this is a certificate issued by a bank or thrift that indicates a specified sum of money has been deposited. A CD has a maturity date and a specified interest rate, and can be issued in any denomination. The duration can be up to five years.
Industry:Financial services
A document certifying the country of origin for goods sold internationally.
Industry:Financial services
