... information, and research relating to financial markets and individual securities. Although smaller retail and regional brokers currently have access to similar data, the designation ofa firm as ... outstanding.UNITIn general: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or of exchange. For example, in the commodities markets, a unit of wheat is a bushel, a unit of coffee ... previous page page_691 next page > CA Credit AccountCA Current AccountCACM Central American Common MarketCAD Cash against DocumentsCAF Cost Assurance and FreightC&F Cost and FreightCAMPS...
... ESTATE TAXES. Illegal strategies to avoid paying taxes are called TAX EVASION.TAX BASE total amount of taxable property, assets, and income that can be taxed within a specific jurisdiction. A ... flow stability than a regular CMO class but less than a PAC, and trades accordingly.TARGET PRICE Finance: price at which an acquirer aims to buy a company in a TAKEOVER.Options: price of the ... LOAN). See also STANDBY COMMITMENT.Securities: withdrawal of cash from a brokerage account, usually after a sale and purchase has resulted in a net CREDIT BALANCE.TAKEOVER change in the controlling...
... Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar, South African rand, Malaysian ringgit, Indonesian rupiah, Singapore dollar, Thai baht.Mid-America Commodity Exchange (Chicago) futures and ... saving rate on a quarterly basis.SAVINGS ACCOUNT deposit account at a commercial bank, savings bank, or savings and loan that pays interest, usually from a day -of- deposit to day -of- withdrawal basis. ... & Poor's 100 Index and LEAPS, Standard & Poor's 500 Index and LEAPS, Standard & Poor's long-dated options, S&P SmallCap 600 Index, S&P/BARRA Growth and Value Indexes,...
... cost of capital; the historical and projected patterns of sales, costs, and profitability anda wide range of considerations in the areas of economics; the money market; and the securities markets. ... VARIABLE ANNUITY.PERIOD-CERTAIN ANNUITY annuity that guarantees payments to an ANNUITANT for a particular period of time. For example, a 10-year period-certain annuity will make annuity payments ... such qualitative considerations as the character of management or the state of employee morale. In credit and securities analysis, examples of quantitative considerations are the value of assets;...
... royalties if the land yields commercial quantities of oil and gas.OIL PATCH states in America that produce and refine oil and gas. This includes Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, California, and Alaska. ... (CGB) and options (OGB) and 3-month Canadian bankers' acceptance (BAX) futures and options (OBX); 1-month Canadian bankers' acceptance futures (BAR) and 5-year Government of Canada bond ... financial pages of most newspapers. See also NATIONAL MARKET SYSTEM.NASDAQ SMALL CAPITALIZATION COMPANIES separately listed group of some 2000 companies that have smaller capitalizations and...
... projections of benefit payouts on actuarial studies of such factors as sex, heredity, and health habits and base their rates on actuarial analysis. Life expectancy can be calculated at birth or at some ... age and generally varies according to age. Thus, all persons at birth might have an average life expectancy of 70 years and all persons aged 40 years might have an average life expectancy of ... maintain certain types of brokerage accounts. Such a fee may be attached to an ASSET MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT, which combines securities and money market accounts. Banks and brokers may also charge...
... separate classes of products for each ofa company's separate lines of business for each of the past five years. A source and application of funds statement presented on a comparative basis ... eight largest industrial countries: Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States. Meetings of the G-8 take place at least once a year and are important in ... INTERNATIONAL MONETARY MARKET; CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE; and the CHICAGO RICE AND COTTON EXCHANGE, all in Chicago; and the KANSAS CITY BOARD OF TRADE, in Kansas City, MO. < previous page...
... PAR VALUE.DEPLETION accounting treatment available to companies that extract oil and gas, coal, or other minerals, usually in the form of an allowance that reduces taxable income. Oil and gas ... order.EXECUTOR/EXECUTRIX administrator of the estate who gathers the estate assets; files the estate tax returns and final personal income tax returns, and administers the estate; pays the debts ofand charges against ... buy and sell far smaller quantities of stocks and bonds.ELEVEN BOND INDEX average yield on a particular day of 11 selected general obligation municipal bonds with an average AA rating, maturing...
... with a known market value anda maturity, when acquired, of less than three months.CASH FLOW1. in a larger financial sense, an analysis of all the changes that affect the cash account during an ... verification of collateral held against a loan, by exchange of information between two brokers or between a broker and a bank.COMPENSATING BALANCE or COMPENSATORY BALANCE average balance required ... cartel.CASH asset account on a balance sheet representing paper currency and coins, negotiable money orders and checks, and bank balances. Also, transactions handled in cash. In the financial statements...
... Hwa et al.,2005; Bentivogli and Pianta, 2005).The phenomenon of formal and informal ad-dress has been considered in the contexts of transla-tion into (Hobbs and Kameyama, 1990; Kanayama,2003) ... Journal of Natural Language Engineering,11(3):311–325.Hiroshi Kanayama. 2003. Paraphrasing rules for au-tomatic evaluation of translation into Japanese. InProceedings of the Second International ... Kanayama,2003) and generation in Japanese (Bateman, 1988).Li and Yarowsky (2008) learn pairs of formal and informal constructions in Chinese with a para-phrase mining strategy. Other relevant recent...
... Expense ratio The percentage of the assets that were spent to run a mutual fund (as of the last annual statement).This includes expenses such as management and advisory fees, overhead costs and 12b-1 ... split into two tranches - domestic and foreign - and each tranche is handled by a separate lead manager. Drop lock An arrangement whereby the interest rate on a floating rate note or preferred ... Exchange of stock Acquisition of another company by purchase of its stock in exchange for cash or shares. Exchange of assets Acquisition of another company by purchase of its assets in exchange...