摘要: The primary market for trading metals such as gold, silver, copper and aluminum. Formerly known as the Commodity Exchange Inc., the COMEX merged with the New York Mercantile exchange in 1994 and becam[阅读全文:]
摘要: The commodity-product spread is the difference between the price of a raw material commodity and price of a finished product created from that commodity. A common commodity-product spread is the "cra[阅读全文:]
摘要: A market database published by Standard and Poor's. The comprehensive Compustat database provides company data going back 40 to 50 years on over 65,000 securities, as of 2010. The type of information[阅读全文:]
摘要: An order that is executed only when certain conditions of the security being traded, or another security, have been fulfilled. Such prerequisite conditions range in scope and depth. In a simple case, [阅读全文:]
摘要: An automated book-entry accounting system. CNS centralizes the settlement of compared transactions and maintains an efficient flow of security and money balances.
During the CNS process,[阅读全文:]
摘要: The short term interest rate charged on a secured call loan, usually in margin accounts.
Also known as the broker's call.
The call loan rate can change on a daily basis, an[阅读全文:]
摘要: Money loaned by a bank that must be repaid on demand. Unlike a term loan, which has a set maturity and payment schedule, call money does not have to follow a fixed schedule. Brokerages use call money [阅读全文:]
摘要: An order given by an investor instructing his/her broker to cancel a previously placed order.
CFO's are typically followed by new orders placed on the same securities. For example, if y[阅读全文:]
摘要: One of several regional stock exchanges located throughout the U.S. As the name states, the exchange is located in Boston, Massachusetts. The BSE is the third-oldest stock exchange in the U.S. as it w[阅读全文:]
摘要: Formerly located in Bremen, Germany, this stock exchange is now defunct. The Bremen exchange merged with the Berlin stock exchange in 2003. It is now known as the Borse Berlin-Bremen stock exchange. <[阅读全文:]