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spread

Financial services; General Finance

(1) The gap between bid and ask prices of a stock or other security. (2) The simultaneous purchase and sale of separate futures or options contracts for the same commodity for delivery in different ...

switching

Financial services; General Finance

Liquidating a position and simultaneously reinstating a position in another futures contract of the same type.

tenants in common

Financial services; General Finance

Account registration in which two or more individuals own a certain proportion of an account. Each tenant's proportion is distributable as part of the owners estate, so that if one of the account ...

sensitive market

Financial services; General Finance

A market that reacts to a great extent to good or bad news.

spread income

Financial services; General Finance

Also called margin income, the difference between income and cost. For a depository institution, the difference between the assets it invests in (loans and securities) and the cost of its funds ...

switching options

Financial services; General Finance

A sequence of transactions in which exercise of one option creates one or more additional options. Investment-disinvestment, entry-exit, expansion-contraction, and suspension-reactivation decisions ...