- Industry: Financial services
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The date on which holders of record in a firm's stock ledger are designated as the recipients of either dividends or stock rights. Also called date of record.
Industry:Financial services
Certificate of an investor, that shows proof of ownership of gold bullion.
Industry:Financial services
A corporation that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors.
Industry:Financial services
Coin minted in gold, such as the American Eagle or the Canadian Maple Leaf.
Industry:Financial services
The illegal practice of maintaining and/or placing a sufficient number of buy orders to create price support for a security or commodity in an amount to of stabilize a downward trend.
Industry:Financial services
A fixed exchange rate system adopted in the Bretton Woods agreement. It required the U.S. to peg the dollar to gold and other countries to peg their currencies to the dollar.
Industry:Financial services
A nickname for a "professional" securityholder who owns stock in various companies, attends annual meetings and asks senior management hard and often embarrassing questions.
Industry:Financial services
