Stocks & securities

Stocks & securities

Stocks trades, exchanges and tools etc.

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underlying asset

Financial services; Stocks & securities

A term used in derivatives trading, such as with options. A derivative is a financial instrument whose price is based (derived) from a different asset. The underlying asset is the financial ...

institutional investors

Financial services; Stocks & securities

Institutional investors are organizations which pool large sums of money and invest those sums in securities, real property and other investment assets. They can also include operating companies ...

1. A financial instrument that has been publicly traded in the secondary market long enough to eliminate any short-term effects from its initial public offering. 2. Any security that has been issued ...

primary market

Financial services; Stocks & securities

A market that issues new securities on an exchange. Companies, governments and other groups obtain financing through debt or equity based securities. Primary markets are facilitated by underwriting ...

stock lending

Financial services; Stocks & securities

The lending of securities by one party to another. As payment for the loan, the parties negotiate a fee, quoted as an annualized percentage of the value of the loaned securities.

back-office

Financial services; Stocks & securities

In investment firms, the back office includes the administrative functions that support the trading of securities, including record keeping, trade confirmation, trade settlement, and regulatory ...

in-the-money option

Financial services; Stocks & securities

A call option is said to be an in-the-money call when the current market price of the stock is above the strike price of the call option, while a put option, to be an in-the-money put then the ...