- Industry: Financial services
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A single put option or call option, as opposed to a spread or straddle, which involves multiple puts and calls.
Industry:Financial services
Amortizing or apportioning an equal dollar amount of depreciation in each accounting period.
Industry:Financial services
Ginnie Mae mortgage funds provided at below-market rates to residential MBS buyers with FHA Section 203 and 235 loans and to developers of multifamily projects with Section 236 loans initially and later with Section 221(d)(4) loans.
Industry:Financial services
Maximizing a firm's revenues by purchasing stock in other firms in order to collect the maximum amount of dividends of which 70% is tax-free.
Industry:Financial services
The mortgage principal and interest payments due to be paid under the terms of the mortgage, not including possible prepayments.
Industry:Financial services
A bond that makes only one payment of principal and interest.
Industry:Financial services
Term life insurance policy providing a fixed-amount death benefit over a certain number of years.
Industry:Financial services
An asset whose value depends on particular physical properties. These include reproducible assets such as buildings or machinery and non-reproducible assets such as land, a mine, or a work of art. Also called real assets. Converse of: Intangible asset
Industry:Financial services
When trading of a stock, bond, option or futures contract is stopped by an exchange while news is being broadcast about the security. See: Suspended trading.
Industry:Financial services
Often used in risk arbitrage. Any technique a company that has become the target of a takeover attempt uses to make itself unattractive to the acquirer. For example, it may agree to sell off its crown jewels, or schedule all debt to become due immediately after a merger.
Industry:Financial services
