Board of trade

Board of trade

Any exchange or association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, of persons who are engaged in the business of buying or selling any commodity or receiving the same for sale on consignment.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.

0 0

Improve it

Add an image

Part of Speech: noun
Synonym(s):
Blossary:
Industry/Domain: Financial services
Category: Commodity exchange
Company:
Product:
Acronym-Abbreviation:

Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

Related terms

board of trade

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Any exchange or association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, of persons who are engaged in the business of buying or selling any commodity or receiving the same for sale ...

Board of Trade

Language; Encyclopedias

A Government office which, as now constituted, dates from 1786, but whose functions within recent times have been considerably widened; consists of a president (a Cabinet ...

The Boards of Trade

History; American history

An English legislative body, based in London, that was instituted for the governing and economic controlling of the American colonies. It lacked many powers, but kept the colonies ...

Philadelphia Board of Trade (PBOT)

Financial services; General Finance

A subsidiary of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange that trades currency futures.

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)

Financial services; General Finance

The second largest futures exchange in the US, and was a pioneer in the development of financial futures and options.

board of trade unit

Mining; General mining; Mineral mining

The work done when a rate of working of 1 kW is maintained for 1 h. The British unit of electrical energy; kilowatt-hour. Abbrev: B.O.T. unit.

margin

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Financial safeguards to ensure that clearing members (usually companies or corporations) perform on their customers' open futures and options contracts. Clearing margins are ...

back pricing

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Fixing the price of a commodity for which the commitment to purchase has been made in advance. The buyer can fix the price relative to any monthly or periodic delivery using the ...

cost of carry

Financial services; Commodity exchange

For physical commodities such as grains and metals, the cost of storage space, insurance, and finance charges incurred by holding a physical commodity. In interest rate futures ...

carry

Financial services; Commodity exchange

For physical commodities such as grains and metals, the cost of storage space, insurance, and finance charges incurred by holding a physical commodity. In interest rate futures ...

carrying charge

Financial services; Commodity exchange

For physical commodities such as grains and metals, the cost of storage space, insurance, and finance charges incurred by holding a physical commodity. In interest rate futures ...