- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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The holding of a large portion of the equity of a corporation, usually at least 20%, which gives the holder a significant amount of control over the corporation. This degree of holding must be recorded in a firm's financial statements.
Industry:Financial services
Balance sheet item that includes the book value of ownership in the corporation. It includes capital stock, paid-in surplus, and retained earnings.
Industry:Financial services
Purchase of a security by a broker after the broker places an order for the same security for a customer. The broker hopes to profit either because of information which the customer has or because the customer's purchase is of sufficient size to affect security prices. This is an unethical practice.
Industry:Financial services
Rating service provided by S&P that indicates the amount of risk involved with different securities.
Industry:Financial services
An order to buy or sell a large enough quantity of securities that the price of the security may be affected. Institutional investors usually spread out such an order over a few days or weeks to avoid adverse pressures on the buy or sell price.
Industry:Financial services
Stockholder whose name is registered on the books of a corporation and thus will receive dividends from the corporation.
Industry:Financial services
Established in 1961, the only centralized securities market in Taiwan.
Industry:Financial services
Credit one firm grants to another firm for the purchase of goods or services.
Industry:Financial services
Often used in risk arbitrage. Sudden attempt by one company to take over another by making a public tender offer.
Industry:Financial services
