- Industry: Financial services
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A procedure that allows a firm to condense its registration statement and prospectus by referencing financial data already on file with the SEC.
Industry:Financial services
An interest rate swap on which the notional principal increases according to a predetermined schedule.
Industry:Financial services
Occurs when a person sells stocks he or she does not yet own. Shares must be borrowed, before the sale, to make "good delivery" to the buyer. Eventually, the shares must be bought back to close out the transaction. This technique is used when an investor believes the stock price will drop.
Industry:Financial services
Foreign exchange market activity by which monetary authorities insulate their domestic money supplies from the foreign exchange transactions with offsetting sales or purchases of domestic assets.
Industry:Financial services
The seller's choice of when in the delivery month to deliver. A Treasury Bond or note futures contract.
Industry:Financial services
Number of shares of a security that investors have sold short divided by average daily volume of the security (measured over 30 days or 90 days). There are various interpretations of this ratio. When people short, it is usually (but not always) because they are pessimistic about the security's future performance. Shorting involves buying at at some point however. Hence, some would interpret a high short ratio as an indicator that there will be some buying pressure on the security that would increase its price.
Industry:Financial services
