- Industry: Financial services
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Brokerage house clerical operations that support, but do not include, the trading of stocks and other securities. All written confirmation and settlement of trades, record keeping, and regulatory compliance happen in the back office.
Industry:Financial services
Creation of securities either by combining primitive and derivative securities into one composite hybrid or by separating returns on an asset into classes.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of general equities, permanently canceledorder/interest in a stock by a customer. See: Take a powder.
Industry:Financial services
Used in venture capital financing to refer to the rate at which a startup company expends capital to finance overhead costs prior to the generation of positive cash flow.
Industry:Financial services
Depletion of a tax shelter's benefits. In the context of mortgage backed securities it refers to the percentage of the pool that has prepaid their mortgage.
Industry:Financial services
(1) When bond yields rise and prices fall, the market is said to back up. (2) An investor who swaps out of one security into another of shorter current maturity is said to back up.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of general equities, "Prepare for a very large buyer."
Industry:Financial services
Repetitive cycles of economic expansion and recession. The official peaks and troughs of the US cycle are determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.
Industry:Financial services
