- Industria: Financial services
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UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Stock market term for selling a security one does not own in the hope of purchasing it later at a lower price to cover the sale and thereby making a profit. Until the purchase to close the transaction has been made, the trader is said to be short on the particular stock or security. Traders taking advantage of falling prices to go short are known as bears.
Industry:Banking
Tax relief granted to holding companies by the Swiss federal government and most cantons.
Industry:Banking
Also: quotation. The market price of an officially listed security. The price is determined during trading hours and is published in the official price list and in the daily papers and other media.
Industry:Banking
Also called a corridor warrant, hamster warrant, range option or range accrual. It enables the investor to bet on an underlying remaining within a specific range. The longer the price stays within this range, the higher the amount paid out on maturity.
Industry:Banking
Shareholding held by management or individual shareholders which represents less than a majority but is nevertheless sufficient to exert a decisive influence at shareholders' meetings.
Industry:Banking
A bank operating in all banking sectors and for all types of clients. Banks combining investment banking, commercial banking, and other activities are now also possible in America, via a holding company structure.
Industry:Banking
EU taxation of interest income from assets belonging to natural persons and held outside their country of residence.
Industry:Banking
Person or institution purchasing securities or tangible assets for the purpose of earning a return or receiving the monetary value. See also institutional investor.
Industry:Banking
A rapid expansion in the volume of business activity, frequently accompanied by price inflation and increased speculation in securities, commodities, etc. Different from prosperity in that boom refers to a stormy rise in the pace and volume of activity rather than an actual increase in production and consumption.
Industry:Banking
A derivative or derivative financial instrument is a generic term for synthetic financial products which are linked to one or more underlying instruments such as shares, bonds, indices, etc.
Industry:Banking
