- Industry: Financial services
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Systems by which listed securities are bought and sold through brokers on the securities exchanges, as distinguished from the OTC market, where trades are negotiated. Unlike the conventional auction with one auctioneer and many buyers, double auction markets consist of many sellers and many buyers.
Industry:Financial services
The amount that is owed to a broker by a margin customer for loans the customer uses to buy securities.
Industry:Financial services
A market consisting of many sellers and many buyers, as opposed to a conventional auction with one market maker and many buyers.
Industry:Financial services
A card that resembles a credit card but which debits a transaction account (checking account) with the transfers occurring contemporaneously with the customer's purchases. A debit card may be machine reable, allowing for the activation of an automated teller machine or other automated payments equipment.
Industry:Financial services
A term used in technical analysis to refer to the drop of a stock's price, a rebound, and then a drop back to the same level as the original drop.
Industry:Financial services
Applies to derivative products. Difference in the value of two options, when the value of the option bought exceeds the value of the one sold. One buys a "debit spread." Antithesis of a credit spread.
Industry:Financial services
Used for listed equity securities. Dividend roll in which the "dividend capturer" already owns the stock cum dividend .
Industry:Financial services
Government taxation of the same money twice; specifically, taxation of earnings at the corporate level and dividends at the stockholder level.
Industry:Financial services
A default on debt and obligations by a major financial institution that disrupts the stability of the economic system.
Industry:Financial services
