- Branche: Financial services
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A group of economists appointed by the President of the United States to provide economic counsel and help prepare the president's budget presentation to Congress.
Industry:Financial services
An option strategy in which one call and one put with the same strike price and expiration are written against 100 shares of the underlying stock. In actually, this is not a "covered" strategy because asignment on the short put would require purchase of stock on margin. This method is also know as a covered combination.
Industry:Financial services
The term used to describe the strategy in which an investor owns the underlying security and also writes a straddle on that security. This is not really a covered position.
Industry:Financial services
A loan denominated in a currency other than that of the borrower's home country, for which repayment terms are prearranged through the use of a forward currency contract.
Industry:Financial services
The principle that the yields from interest-bearing foreign and domestic investments should be equal when the forward currency market is used to predetermine the domestic currency payoff from a foreign investment.
Industry:Financial services
The period between the sale of goods for a credit and the payment for those goods. This lag is determined largely by the selling firm's credit policy.
Industry:Financial services
Firms that compile information on and issue public credit ratings for a large number of companies.
Industry:Financial services
The guidelines a company follows to determine whether a credit applicant is creditworthy.
Industry:Financial services
The conditions under which credit will be extended to a customer. The components of credit terms are: cash discount, credit period, net period.
Industry:Financial services
