Foreign exchange

Also: foreign exchange. Business activity which consists of the purchase and sale of currencies, holding currency positions, currency arbitrage and speculation on the currency ...

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 ...

interest rate futures

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Futures contracts traded on fixed income securities such as G.N.M.A.s, U.S. Treasury issues, or CDS. Currency is excluded from this category, even though interest rates are a ...

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Joseph · Merrick

Joseph · Carey · Merrick (August 5, 1862 – April 11, 1890) is a British show severely deformed human curiosity of life, known as the elephant man · ...