- Industry: Financial services
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The transfer of corporate activity from the larger parent to the smaller subsidiary.
Industry:Financial services
Reducing the principal and/or interest payments on Less developed country loans.
Industry:Financial services
Move down in a particular stock. On U.S. stock exchanges, you cannot sell a stock short on a downtick.
Industry:Financial services
The transition point between a rising, expanding economy to a falling, contracting one.
Industry:Financial services
IOUs created through loan-type transactions-commercial paper, bank CDs, bills, bonds, and other instruments.
Industry:Financial services
Federal Reserve System's course of action to tighten the money supply by (1) raising a bank's minimum reserve requirements, (2) selling bonds in the open market, (3) raising the rate at which banks borrow from the Fed.
Industry:Financial services
Interest payment plus repayments of principal to creditors (retirement of debt).
Industry:Financial services
An unconventional order in writing-signed by a person, usually the exporter, and addressed to the importer-ordering the importer or the importer's agent to pay, on demand (sight draft) or at a fixed future date (time draft) the amount specified on the face of the draft.
Industry:Financial services
The ratio of cash flow available to the borrower to the annual interest and principal payments on a loan or other debt.
Industry:Financial services
