Meaning STOCK EXCHANGES: Formal organizations, approved and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that are made up of members who use the facilities to exchange certain common stocks. The two major national stock exchanges are the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the American Stock Exchange (ASE or AMEX). Five regional stock exchanges include the Midwest, Pacific, Philadelphia, Boston, and Cincinnati. The Arizona Stock Exchange is an after-hours electronic marketplace where anonymous participants trade stocks via personal computers
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- Definition Standstill Agreement:
- Examples Contract by which the bidding firm in a takeover attempt agrees to limit its holdings of another firm stock exchanges definition.
- Definition Stock Replacement Strategy:
- Examples enhancing a portfolio's return, used when the futures contract is expensive according to its theoretical price. The strategy involves a swap between the futures and a Treasury bill and stock stock exchanges explain.
- Definition Subperiod Return:
- Examples The return of a portfolio over a shorter period of time than the evaluation period stock exchanges what is.
- Definition Substitution Swap:
- Examples A swap in which a money manager exchanges one bond for another bond that is similar in terms of coupon, maturity, and credit quality, but that offers a higher yield stock exchanges meaning.
- Definition Stratified Equity Indexing:
- Examples A method of constructing a replicating portfolio that classifies the stocks in the index into strata, and represents each stratum in the portfolio stock exchanges abbreviation.
