- Industry: Financial services
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The best known US index of stocks. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials including, stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow, as it is called, is a barometer of how shares of the largest US companies are performing. There are hundreds of investment indexes around the world for stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities.
Industry:Financial services
Refers to a round of venture capital financing that is raised at a lower firm valuation than the previous round.
Industry:Financial services
A bond covenant that restricts the firm's ability to incur additional indebtedness in some way.
Industry:Financial services
A negative change in ratings for a stock, or other rated security.
Industry:Financial services
The risk that a security will decline in value including the implications of risk.
Industry:Financial services
Obligations incurred by the Treasury subject to the statutory limit set by Congress. Until World War 1, a specific amount of debt was authorized for each separate security issue. Beginning with the Second Liberty Loan Act of 1917, the nature of the limitation was modified until, in 1941, it developed into an overall limit on the outstanding Federal debt. As of March 1999, the debt limit was $5,950,000 million; the limit may change from year to year. The debt subject to limitation includes most of the Treasury's public debt except securities issued to the Federal Financing Bank, upon which there is a limitation of $15 billion, and certain categories of older debt (totaling approximately $595 million as of February 1991).
Industry:Financial services
A company's reduction in the number of employees, number of bureaucratic levels, and overall size in an attempt to increase efficiency and profitability.
Industry:Financial services
