Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Principal risk

Principal risk

The risk that an investment will be worth less at the time it is sold than it was worth when it was bought.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
Improve it
More
Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

More

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Related terms

principal risk
Financial services; Funds

The risk that an investment will be worth less at the time it is sold than it was worth when it was bought.

Principal
Telecommunications; General telecom

1. An initiator that is capable of initiating interactions on objects, which is not acting on behalf of, or by proxy, of another object. A Principal can be either a human user or ...

Principal
Real estate; 

Refers to the amount of money from a loan that remains unpaid, excluding interest; also refers to the parties involved in a transaction

Principal
Financial services; General Finance

(1) The total amount of money being borrowed or lent. (2) The party affected by agent decisions in a principal-agent relationship.

risk
Energy; Nuclear energy

The combined answer to three questions that consider (1) what can go wrong, (2) how likely it is, and (3) what its consequences might be. These three questions allow the NRC to ...

risk
Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The probability of injury, disease, or death under specific circumstances and time periods. Risk can be expressed as a value that ranges from 0% (no injury or harm will occur) to ...

buy fund symbol
Financial services; Funds

The fund symbol that you are buying when entering a mutual fund exchange.

buy order(purchase)
Financial services; Funds

In securities trading, an order to a brokerage firm/broker to purchase a specified quality of a security at the market price or limited price.

buy put
Financial services; Funds

An option contract that gives the holder the right to sell the underlying security at a specified price for a certain, fixed period of time.

buy stop order(purchase)
Financial services; Funds

Buy order that is entered at a price above the current offering price and becomes a market order when the current market price touches or goes through the buy stop price.

buy to close
Financial services; Funds

Buying an option contract to close out a pre-existing short position.

buy to cover
Financial services; Funds

The purchase of a long position to offset a short position.

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Automotive Category: Automobile

Maserati GranTurismo

Manufactured by Italian car company Maserati, the Maserati Gran Turismo is a two-door coupe sports car. The first model came out in 2007, following ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Blossary-A

Category: Business   1 1 Terms

Most Widely Spoken Languages in the World 2014

Category: Languages   2 10 Terms

Browers Terms By Category

TERMS

SOCIAL

EXTRAS

SOLUTIONS