- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
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World's leading financial information-service, news, and media company.
The people who administer a company, create policies, and provide the support necessary to implement the owners' business objectives.
Industry:Financial services
A tax-exempt bond issued by a municipality or a state financial intermediary that is backed by the moral, but not legal, obligation of a state government to appropriate funds in case of default .
Industry:Financial services
The acquisition of a controlling interest in a promising business by an outside investment group that retains existing management and places representatives on the board of directors.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. More stock exists to be bought or sold by the same buyer or seller, respectively. Often, the buyer or seller does not disclose the full size of his buy or sell interest as not to affect the market adversely. See: May expand.
Industry:Financial services
Leveraged buyout whereby the acquiring group is led by the firm's management.
Industry:Financial services
The International Monetary Fund's name for an exchange rate system in which rates float freely.
Industry:Financial services
Percentage of shares held by persons closely related to a company, as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Part of these percentages often are included in "institutional holdings"--making the combined total of these percentages over 100. There is overlap as institutions sometimes acquire enough stock to be considered by the SEC to be closely allied to the company.
Industry:Financial services
This firm publishes a number of well known benchmarks, such as the MSCI World Index.
Industry:Financial services
An agreement by which a company will provide its organizational and management expertise in the form of services.
Industry:Financial services
A market capitalization-weighted benchmark index made up of equities from 29 developing countries.
Industry:Financial services
