Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

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emergency

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Any market occurrence or circumstance which requires immediate action and threatens or may threaten such things as the fair and orderly trading in, or the liquidation of, or delivery pursuant to, any ...

credit rating

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A rating determined by a rating agency that indicates the agency’s opinion of the likelihood that a borrower such as a corporation or sovereign nation will be able to repay its debt. The rating ...

trading against

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Directly or indirectly taking the opposite side of a customer's order into a broker's own account or into an account in which a broker has an interest, without open and competitive execution of the ...

physical delivery

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A provision in a futures contract or other derivative for delivery of the actual commodity to satisfy the contract. In the context of a financial derivative, that means delivering the actual ...

fast market

Financial services; Commodity exchange

An open outcry market situation in which transactions in the pit or ring take place in such volume and with such rapidity that price reporters fall behind with price quotations, label each quote ...

volcker rule

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Named for former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the Volcker Rule is a section of the Dodd-Frank Act that generally prohibits banking entities from engaging in proprietary ...

trading arcade

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A facility, often operated by a clearing member that clears trades for locals, where e-locals who trade for their own account can gather to trade on an electronic trading facility (especially if the ...