- Industry: Financial services
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A futures contract based on an interbank deposit rate or an underlying debt security. The value of the contract rises and falls inversely to changes in interest rates.
Industry:Financial services
A firm's cash balance as reported in its financial statements. Also called book cash.
Industry:Financial services
Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that it is the third preferred bond of the company.
Industry:Financial services
Expression that the interest rate differential between two countries is equal to the difference between the forward foreign exchange rate and the spot rate.
Industry:Financial services
A prolonged trend in stock market prices, such as a multiple-period bull market; or, an option that is one side of a spread transaction. See: Lifting a leg.
Industry:Financial services
Diagonal line on a graph that characterizes interest rate parity.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. (1)Have a portion of the offsetting side of a trade in your pocket (spoken for) so your capital risk in the transaction is reduced. (Purchase of 10,000 of a 50,000 buy order leaves the trader a "leg up".) (2) Complete one side of a two-sided transaction, as in a swap or contingency order.
Industry:Financial services
