- Industry: Financial services
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A contract not recorded on paper or on computer, buy made vocally which is usually enforceable.
Industry:Financial services
A name that is used by the Corporation as a generic registered owner on a stock or bond certificate. The use of nominee names makes the processing of security transfers easier.
Industry:Financial services
Instruction to a broker/dealer to buy, sell, deliver, or receive securities or commodities that commits the issuer of the "order" to the terms specified. See: indication, inquiry, bid wanted, offer wanted.
Industry:Financial services
In name only. Differences in compounding cause the nominal rate to differ from the effective interest rate. Inflation causes the purchasing power of money to differ from one time to another.
Industry:Financial services
The exchange employee in charge of keeping a book of public limit orders on exchanges utilizing the "marker-maker" system, as opposed to the "specialist system", of executing orders. See also Market-Marker and Specialist.
Industry:Financial services
An effective rate per period multiplied by the number of periods in a year. Same as annual percentage rate.
Industry:Financial services
Orders of one kind for a stock not offset by the opposite orders, which causes a wide spread between bid and offer prices.
Industry:Financial services
A cash flow expressed in nominal terms if the actual dollars to be received or paid out are given.
Industry:Financial services
In a nonlinear dynamic system, a variable-acting link a macrovariable, or combination of variables-that summarizes the individual variables that can affect a system. In a controlled experiment, involving thermal convection, for example, temperature can be a control parameter; in a large complex system, temperature can be an order parameter, because it summarizes the effect of the sun, air pressure, and other atmospheric variables. See: Control parameter.
Industry:Financial services
