- Branche: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
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A portfolio that includes a variety of securities so that the weight of any security is small. The risk of a well-diversified portfolio closely approximates the systematic risk of the overall market, and the unsystematic risk of each security has been diversified out of the portfolio.
Industry:Financial services
Refers to a transaction made conditionally, because a security, although authorized, has not yet been issued. Treasury securities, new issues of stocks and bonds, stocks that have split, and in-merger situations after the time the proxy has become effective but before completion are all traded on a when-issued basis. With ice.
Industry:Financial services
Buying stocks just before prices fall and selling stocks just before prices rise in a volatile market, often as the result of misleading signals.
Industry:Financial services
An unofficial earnings estimate of a company given to clients by a security analyst if there is more optimism or pessimism about earnings than shown in the published number. These are often found on the Internet.
Industry:Financial services
A stock rumored to be the target of a takeover bid, drawing speculators who hope to make a profit after the takeover is completed.
Industry:Financial services
A person who has knowledge of fraudulent activities inside a firm or government agency, who is protected from the employer's retribution by federal law.
Industry:Financial services
The audio equivalent of Brownian motion. Sounds that are unrelated and sound like a hiss. The video equivalent of white noise is "snow" in television reception.
Industry:Financial services
Lists of prices published by the National Quotation Bureau for Market Makers.
Industry:Financial services
Broker-dealer firms that disdain practices such as hostile takeovers.
Industry:Financial services
