- Industry: Financial services
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Act imposing civil and criminal penalties for insider trading violations.
Industry:Financial services
The purchase of a futures contract in anticipation of actual purchases in the cash market. Used by processors or exporters as protection against an advance in the cash price. Related: hedge, short hedge
Industry:Financial services
Federal legislation that greatly increased the penalties for trading on material inside information.
Industry:Financial services
The part of an option spread in which an agreement to buy the underlying security is made.
Industry:Financial services
These are directors and senior officers of a corporation-in effect, those who have access to inside information about a company. An insider also is someone who owns more than 10% of the voting shares of a company.
Industry:Financial services
The market value of a security, excluding options, as of the close of the last business day.
Industry:Financial services
The risk that a firm will be unable to satisfy its debts. Also known as bankruptcy risk.
Industry:Financial services
