Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

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call auction

Financial services; Commodity exchange

An auction in which the traders place limit bids and offers over a specified time period and those orders are subsequently matched, as opposed to an order book format where standing bid and offer ...

inflation-indexed debt instrument

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Generally a debt instrument (such as a bond or note) on which the payments are adjusted for inflation and deflation. In a typical inflation-indexed instrument, the principal amount is adjusted ...

fill or kill order (FOK)

Financial services; Commodity exchange

An order that demands immediate execution or cancellation. Typically involving a designation, added to an order, instructing the broker to offer or bid (as the case may be) one time only; if the ...

assignment

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Designation by a clearing organization of an option writer who will be required to buy (in the case of a put) or sell (in the case of a call) the underlying futures contract or security when an ...

implied repo rate

Financial services; Commodity exchange

The rate of return that can be obtained from selling a debt instrument futures contract and simultaneously buying a bond or note deliverable against that futures contract with borrowed funds. The ...

required transaction

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Refers to those swaps transactions on swap execution facilities that are subject to the trade execution mandate and thus must be traded on a SEF or DCM. CFTC rules require SEFs to offer certain ...

A foreign firm that does business with U.S. customers only on foreign exchanges and is exempt from registration as a futures commission merchant under CFTC regulations based upon compliance with its ...