- Industry: Financial services
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The transaction in an interest rate swap who receives payments based on the floating rate and makes payments based on the fixed rate.
Industry:Financial services
Describes an investor who, when faced with two investments with the same expected return but different risks, prefers the one with the lower risk.
Industry:Financial services
The second-lowest-priced of the ten highest-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average that is said (by authors O'Higgins and Downes) to be the Dow stock with the best possibility of outperforming the average as a whole.
Industry:Financial services
The highest-quality, investment-grade debt of corporations as decided by rating agencies such as Moody's.
Industry:Financial services
A landing place or pier, usually of solid construction, where vessels berth to load or unload cargo.
Industry:Financial services
A form of poison pill providing that the entire management threatens to resign in the event of a takeover.
Industry:Financial services
The interest rate at which banks lend to their best (prime) customers. More often than not, a bank's most creditworthy customers borrow at rates below the prime rate.
Industry:Financial services
The total bonded debt of a municipality divided by the population of the municipality.
Industry:Financial services
A mutual fund that buys portions of corporate loans from banks and pays the interest to shareholders.
Industry:Financial services
