Meaning HALF-LIFE: The point in the life of a mortgage-backed security guaranteed or issued by the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation when half the principal has been repaid
More terms such as Half-life in Dictionary H.
- Definition Holding The Market:
- Examples The illegal practice of maintaining 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 downward trend half-life definition.
- Definition House Call:
- Examples Notification by a brokerage house that a customer's margin account is below the minimum maintenance level. The client must provide more cash or equity, or the account will be liquidated half-life explain.
- Definition Hell-Or-High-Water Contract:
- Examples A contract that obligates a purchaser of a project's output to make cash payments to the project in all events, even if no product is offered for sale half-life what is.
- Definition Highly Leveraged Transaction (HLT):
- Examples Bank loan to a highly leveraged firm half-life meaning.
- Definition Hurdle Rate:
- Examples The required return in capital budgeting. For example, if a project has an expected rate of return higher than the hurdle rate, the project may be accepted half-life abbreviation.
