Posted on 03 November 2009
Close out is sometimes referred to as an offset or an even up, reduction or termination of a current position on a given investment is involved in a close out. Simultaneously, using the same underlying security the investor will make an opposite transaction. In effect, to maintain the amount of investment is the outcome of…
Tags: Close out, downturn, futures contract, greater return from the underlying security, less investment, Markets, maximize return, reduction or termination of a current position, underlying security
Posted on 27 October 2009
The term “cash sale” can be used by the people in several different contexts. A cash sale has to deal with the purchase of goods or services, in just about every situation, and it involves the immediate possession of the new owner, without any amount of time between purchase and assuming full ownership. On a daily basis people…
Tags: business day, buyer, cash sale, deferred payment, immediate possession, investments, liquid assets, three day settlement period
Posted on 20 October 2009
The portion of any option premium that is directly related to the amount of time remaining between the current date and the expiry date assigned to the warrant or options contract is referred to as Time value. Sometimes it is also known as a time premium. The worth or value of the option or warrant above and beyond the intrinsic or face value assigned to…
Tags: applicable market conditions, feasibility of purchasing a given options contract, investors, options contract, options premium, time premium, Time value, time value of options and warrants
Posted on 18 October 2009
A gold bar is referred to as a gold ingot which can be bought, sold, or traded as an investment. Sometimes gold bars are also used to transport gold for manufacturing, since they are designed such that they are easy to handle. Gold’s is considered as commodity that waxes and wanes with the market, but it is felt by some people that…
Tags: assayer, cheaper metal, gold bar, gold standard, Markets, metals expert, person purchase gold bars, producers of the gold, reserves of gold, solid gold bars, sound investment, third party sellers
Posted on 17 October 2009
The period of time it takes to go from one harvest to the next harvest is known as a crop year. If crops are only planted once per year then a crop year can approximately a calendar year in length. However, in some climates within a calendar year there can be…
Tags: base reference, claims, commodity crop, corn, crop marketing period, crop year, crops, harvest, insurance companies, payments, rice, soybeans, two crop years, wheat
Posted on 15 October 2009
In finance,a brokerage order from an investor to a broker to sell a quantity of stocks, shares, bonds, or other investment assets is referred to as a sell order. In order to instruct a stock broker there are a number of different types of sell orders that…
Tags: activation price, brokerage order, investment order, limit sell orders, lock inprofits, Market sell orders, sell orders, stock broker, stop orders, trailing stop orders
Posted on 14 October 2009
On Wednesday the dollar has shown a drop to a 14-month low against a basket of currencies and the euro, dented by anticipations that solid JPMorgan Chase results and rising stock and commodity prices bode well for…
Tags: 14-month low, attractiveness of U.S. assets, Australian and Canadian dollars, global economy, JPMorgan Chase, losses on credit cards, revenue, Swiss franc CHF=, yen
Posted on 13 October 2009
As falling stocks in the U.S. and Europe reduced risk appeal, the euro gave back some recent gains against its major rivals. Earlier, the 16-member currency against the dollar and pound had extended…
Tags: .S. and Europe reduced risk appeal, annual inflation, British pound, country's foreign reserves, current economic situation, European currency, German economic sentiment, Iran's central bank chief, multi-month highs, ZEW
Posted on 12 October 2009
On Monday, the dollar gained for the second straight session against the yen, as today it has raised to a more than two-week high, with traders covering short positions as they debated the timing of a tightening in U.S. monetary policy though there are some investors that…
Tags: British interest rates, dollar gained, dollar GBP=, EURJPY=R, JPY=, U.S. monetary policy
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Posted on 29 September 2009
A markup is known as that amount of the unit cost that represents the difference between what the seller charges for a good or service and the costs that is associated with securing and selling that good or service. To determine the markup percentage that will result in the final unit cost there are several different formulas…
Tags: higher percentage of profit, markup, markup percentage, prevailing market conditions