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term repo

Financial services; General Finance

A repurchase agreement with a term of more than one day.

Occurs when a portion of directors are elected periodically, instead of all at once. Board terms are often staggered in order to thwart unfriendly takeover attempts, since potential acquirers would ...

synthetic put

Financial services; General Finance

A strategy equivalent in risk to purchasing a put option where an investor sells stock short and buys a call.

term structure

Financial services; General Finance

Relationship between interest rates on bonds of different maturities, usually depicted in the form of a graph often called a yield curve. Harvey shows that inverted term structures (long rates below ...