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- Definition Bond Grade High Explain A bond with Triple-A or Double-A rating in Standard & Poor's, or Moody's rating system
- Definition Issue Of House Explain An investment banking firm whose business it is to underwrite stock or bond issues and offer the securities to the public
- Definition Price High Explain The highest (intraday) price of a stock over the past 52 weeks, adjusted for any stock splits
- Definition Money Hot Explain in response to interest rate differences and that moves away when the interest rate differential disappears
- Definition House Explain Firms that conduct business as broker-dealers in securities or in the investment banking field are charaterized as houses
- Definition Account House Explain that is given a high level of priority and is handled by the main office or an executive, rather than a traditional salesperson
- Definition Call House Explain a customer's margin account is below the minimum maintenance level. The client must provide more cash or equity, or the account will
- Definition Requirement Maintenance House Explain The internal rules of a brokerage house that govern the minimum amount of equity that must be present in a customer's margin account
- Definition Poor House Explain People who are short on cash because most of their money is tied up in their homes are house poor
- Definition Rules House Explain Internal rules of broker-dealer firm that govern the handling of its customers' accounts
- Definition Bond Housing Explain Bonds issued by a local housing authority to finance housing projects
- Definition Hubris Explain An arrogance due to excessive pride and an insolence toward others. A classic character flaw of a trader or investor
- Definition Rating Hulbert Explain service of CBS MarketWatch, of how well the recommendations of various investment advisory newsletters have performed
- Definition Capital Human Explain The unique capabilities and expertise of individuals
- Definition Up Hung Explain Used to describe the position of an investor whose stocks or bonds have dropped in value below their original purchase price
- Definition Down Hunkering Explain A term used to describe a trader selling off a big position in a stock
- Definition Rate Hurdle Explain budgeting. For example, if a project has an expected rate of return higher than the hurdle rate, the project may be accepted
- Definition Hybrid Explain A package of two or more different kinds of risk management instruments that are usually interactive
- Definition Annuity Hybrid Explain A type of insurance company investment that combines the benefits of both a fixed annuity and a variable annuity
- Definition Security Hybrid Explain common stock is trading in a middle range, causing the convertible security to trade with the characteristics of both a fixed income
- Definition High-premium convertible debenture Explain common stock conversion feature. It also offers a competitive interest rate. This type of investment vehicle is aimed at bond investors who
- Definition Stock Tech High Explain Stocks of companies operating in high-technology fields
- Definition Delta Ratio Hedge Explain in an option's theoretical value and the change in price of the underlying stock at a given point in time. For convertibles
- Definition Highjacking Explain Japanese term for a takeover
- Definition Letter Confident Highly Explain letter indicating that the firm is highly confident it will be able to arrange financing for a securities deal
- Definition Highs Explain Stocks that have hit an all-time high for the current 52-week time period
- Definition Cost Historical Explain Describes the accounting cost carried in the books for a current cost of the item
- Definition Rate Exchange Historical Explain An accounting term that refers to the exchange rate in effect at the time an asset or liability is acquired
- Definition Range Trading Historical Explain The range of price over which a security or a commodity has traded since listing on a exchange
- Definition Yield Historical Explain A measure of a mutual fund's yield over a specific period of time, e.g., 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, or year to date
- Definition Bid The Hit Explain A dealer who agrees to sell at the bid price quoted by another dealer is said to hit that bid. Antithesis of take the offer
- Definition Hold Explain over a long period of time. Hold is also a recommendation of an analyst who is not positive enough on a stock to recommend a buy, but not
- Definition Holder of record date Explain a firm's stock ledger are designated as the recipients of either dividends or stock rights. Also called date of record
- Definition Company Holding Explain stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors
- Definition Market The Holding Explain and/or placing a sufficient number of buy orders to create price support for a security or commodity in an amount to of stabilize a
- Definition Period Holding Explain Length of time a security is held
- Definition Return Period Holding Explain Rate of return on an investment over a given period
- Definition Run Home Explain Large capital gain in a stock in a short period of time
- Definition Dividend Homemade Explain Sale of some shares of stock to get cash in an amount similar to that of a cash dividend
- Definition Leverage Homemade Explain or lend) on the same terms as the firm, they can duplicate the effects of corporate leverage on their own. Thus, if levered firms are
- Definition Homeowner's equity account Explain lenders allowing a homeowner a second mortgage that uses the equity present in the customer's account as collateral
- Definition Homeowner's insurance policy Explain An insurance policy protecting a homeowner against damage or loss to property
- Definition Homogeneity Explain The degree to which items are similar
- Definition Homogeneous Explain Exhibiting a high degree of homogeneity
- Definition Assumption Expectations Homogeneous Explain construction that investors have the same expectations with respect to the inputs that are used to derive efficient portfolios: asset
- Definition Analysis Horizon Explain An analysis of returns using total return to assess performance over some investment horizon
- Definition Return Horizon Explain Total return over a given horizon
- Definition Acquisition Horizontal Explain Merger between two companies producing similar goods or services
- Definition Analysis Horizontal Explain item of a given year by the same expense item in the base year. It allows assement of changes in the relative importance of expense items
- Definition Merger Horizontal Explain the same industry that are both at the same stage in the production cycle; that is, two or more competitors
- Definition Movement Price Horizontal Explain price range over an extended period of time which creates the appearance of a relatively straight line on a graph of the stock's price
- Definition Spread Horizontal Explain The simultaneous purchase and sale of two options that differ only in their exercise dates
- Definition Bond Revenue Hospital Explain A bond issued to finance construction of a hospital by a municipal or state agency
- Definition Security Host Explain The security to which a warrant is attached
- Definition Takeover Hostile Explain A takeover of a company against the wishes of the current management and the board of directors by an acquiring company or raider
- Definition Hot Explain Used in the context of general equities. Active, usually with positive price implications
- Definition Investor Off Hands Explain An investor who has a large stake in a company, but does not wish to play an active role in the management of the corporation
- Definition Investor On Hands Explain An investor who has a large stake in a corporation and takes an active role in its management. Antithesis of hands-off investor
- Definition Index Seng Hang Explain The major index in Hong Kong
- Definition Rationing Capital Hard Explain A capital budget that under no circumstances can be violated
- Definition Currency Hard Explain A freely convertible currency that is not expected to depreciate in value in the foreseeable future
- Definition Dollars Hard Explain Actual separate payments made by a customer for services, including research, provided by a brokerage firm. Antithesis of soft dollars
- Definition Warrant Harmless Explain Warrant that allows the user to purchase a bond only by surrendering an other bond with similar terms
- Definition Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Explain act administered by U.S. Department of Justice and the FTC that requires an investor to file a form with the government before he acquires
- Definition R Campbell Harvey Explain professor at Duke University. Author of research on international finance, asset allocation, and emerging markets
- Definition Shoulders Head Explain results where a stock price reaches a peak and declines; rises above its former peak and again declines; and rises a third time but not to
- Definition Hedge Explain A transaction that reduces the risk of an investment
- Definition Clause Hedge Explain published document, that attempts to absolve the writer of responsibility for the accuracy of information provided
- Definition Fund Hedge Explain A fund that may employ a variety of techniques to enhance returns, such as both buying and shorting stocks according to a valuation model
- Definition Wrapper Hedge Explain investor with a long position in an underlying stock buys an out-of-the-money put and sells an out-of-the-money call. The hedge wrapper
- Definition Portfolio Hedged Explain position in the stock and a long position in the put option on the stock, so as to be riskless and produce a return that equals the risk
- Definition Tender Hedged Explain holding short a tender offer in the event all shares tendered are not accepted. For example, investor Q has 5000 shares of XYZ. An
- Definition Hedgie Explain Slang for a hedge fund
- Definition Hedging Explain investment risk using call options, put options, short-selling, or futures contracts. A hedge can help lock in profits. Its purpose is to
- Definition Demands Hedging Explain Demands for securities to hedge particular sources of consumption risk, beyond the usual mean-variance diversification motivation
- Definition Held at the opening Explain open for trading because specialists or regulators are not allowing trading to occur until imbalances dissipate or news is disseminated
- Definition Order Held Explain hesitation (Hit the bid or take the offer in line) or if the stock can be bought or sold at that price (held limit order) in sufficient
- Definition Hell-or-high-water contract Explain of a project's output to make cash payments to the project in all events, even if no product is offered for sale
- Definition Theory Hemline Explain same direction as the hemlines of women's dresses. For example, short skirts (1920s and 1960s) are symbolic of bullish markets and
- Definition Risk Herstatt Explain trading that one party will deliver foreign exchange but the counterparty financial institution will fail to complete its end of the
- Definition Page H H Explain Quotron display page that shows new listed inquiries/orders received after the block call
- Definition Hibor Explain Hong Kong Interbank Offer Rate, the annualized offer rate banks pay to attain Hong Kong three-month deposits in denominated dollars
- Definition Load Hidden Explain disclosed or is buried in the fine print of a mutual fund prospectus or life insurance policy and therefore is not immediately apparent
- Definition Values Hidden Explain Valuable assets owned by a company, that are not accurately reflected in its stock price at a particular time
- Definition High-coupon bond refunding Explain Replace a high-coupon bond with a new, lower-coupon bond
- Definition Credit High Explain The maximum amount of outstanding loans for a particular customer on a bank's record
- Definition High current income mutual fund Explain A mutual fund whose primary goal is to produce a high level of income by making higher-risk investments in instruments such as junk bonds
- Definition Flyer High Explain stock that moves up and down sharply over a short period. Generally glamorous in nature due to the capital gains potential associated with
- Definition H Explain Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the issue is the second preferred bond of the company
- Definition Hex Exchanges Helsinki Explain Helsinki Securities and Derivatives Exchange and Clearing House) was formed at the beginning of 1998 following the merger of the Helsinki
- Definition Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE) Explain Futures Exchange (H.K.F.E.) operates futures and options markets in index, stock, interest rate, and foreign exchange products
- Definition Highly leveraged transaction (HLT) Explain Bank loan to a highly leveraged firm
- Definition Haircut Explain The margin or difference between the actual market value of a security and the value assessed by the lending side of a transaction
- Definition Life Half Explain backed security guaranteed or issued by the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal National Mortgage Association or the
- Definition Stock Half Explain Stock, common or preferred, with a $50 par value
- Definition Market The Hammering Explain Heavy selling of stocks by speculators who think that the stock is overvalued and is about to drop
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