- Branche: Financial services
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An economy that is growing very quickly, with the risk of high inflation.
Industry:Financial services
Holds that the futures price will be bid down to a level below the expected spot price.
Industry:Financial services
In corporate finance, this refers to managers not acting in the best interests of the shareholders and investing too much (potentially in negative net present value projects).
Industry:Financial services
The well known bell shaped curve. According to the Central Limit Theorem, the probability density function of a large number of independent, identically distributed random numbers will approach the normal distribution. In the fractal family of distributions, the normal distribution only exists when alpha equals 2, or the Hurst exponent equals 0.50. Thus, the normal distribution is a special case which in time series analysis is quite rare. See: Alpha, Central Limit Theorem, Fractal Distribution.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Create a crossed market by expressing a willingness to sell on the bid side of the market and buy on the offer side.
Industry:Financial services
The portion of debt of political subdivisions or neighboring special districts that a municipality is responsible for.
Industry:Financial services
The investment history of a customer, which is used as a benchmark to test the bona fide public offerings requirement of the allocation of a hot issue.
Industry:Financial services
