- Industria: Financial services
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Liquidation of a margin account after a customer has failed to bring an account to a required level by producing additional equity after a margin call. The selling of securities by a broker when a customer fails to pay for them. The complete sale of all securities in a new issue.
Industry:Financial services
A large securities transaction that is divided into smaller orders that are spread out over some period of time to avoid large fluctuations in the market price.
Industry:Financial services
Market or limit order to sell a stated amount of stock provided that the price to be obtained is not lower than the last sale if the last sale was a plus, or zero plus tick, and is not lower than the last sale plus the minimum fractional change in the stock if the last sale was a minimum or zero minimum tick. (In a limit order, sale cannot be lower than the limit, regardless of tick.)
Industry:Financial services
Block trade printed at two different prices. Often used in dividend rolls to get an average price equal to the dividend.
Industry:Financial services
Temporary halt in trading in a particular security, in advance of a major news announcement or to correct an imbalance of orders to buy and sell.
Industry:Financial services
A tax system that taxes retained earnings at a higher rate than earnings that are distributed as dividends.
Industry:Financial services
An account used temporarily to record receipts and disbursements that have yet to be classified.
Industry:Financial services
Short rise in securities or commodities futures prices in the face of a general declining trend. Such a rally may result because investors are bargain hunting or because analysts have noticed a particular support level at which securities usually bounce up. Antithesis of correction.
Industry:Financial services
