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 Company:
- Examples A corporation that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors half-life definition.
- Definition House Rules:
- Examples Internal rules of broker-dealer firm that govern the handling of its customers' accounts half-life explain.
- Definition Hold:
- Examples ownership of a security 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 negative enough on the stock to half-life what is.
- Definition Hot Money:
- Examples Money that moves across country borders in response to interest rate differences and that moves away when the interest rate differential disappears half-life meaning.
- Definition Homemade Leverage:
- Examples as individuals borrow (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 priced too high, rational investors will half-life abbreviation.
