Cash-Flow Break Even Point Levels below which a company needs to make arrangements for additional financing or should liquidate some assets so that fixed costs are met. … [Read more...]
Cash Management Bill
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Cash Management Bill Treasury bills with very short maturity sold by it to raise cash for a few days when cash balances are low. … [Read more...]
Cash Markets
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Cash Markets Refer: Derivative markets. Also termed spot markets. Marketplace where security or instrument is delivered immediately. … [Read more...]
Cash Offer
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Cash Offer Public offer wherein the equity issue is sold to every investor interested in the issue. … [Read more...]
Cash Ratio
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Cash Ratio Cash held by a firm as a proportion of total assets. … [Read more...]
Cash Settlement Contracts
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Cash Settlement Contracts Futures contracts settling for cash instead of involving actual physical delivery of commodities or securities. For example, stock index futures. … [Read more...]
Cash Surrender Value
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Cash Surrender Value Also termed cash value, surrender value, policyholder's equity. Amount paid by insurance company to policyholder when policy is terminated before maturity voluntarily or the event insured occurs. … [Read more...]
Cash Transaction
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Cash Transaction As opposed to forward transactions, a transaction wherein the exchange takes place immediately. … [Read more...]
Cash-Equivalent Items
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Cash-Equivalent Items Investments made on temporary basis in short term, low risk instruments like T bills by investing cash that is in excess currently. … [Read more...]
Cash-Surrender Value
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Cash-Surrender Value Amount payable by insurance company when a whole life policy is ended by the policyholder. … [Read more...]
Cashout
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Cashout State of affairs where company is out of cash and marketable securities cannot be immediately converted to cash by selling them. … [Read more...]
Certainty Equivalent
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Certainty Equivalent The quantity of funds that are considered equivalent to an uncertain opportunity of receiving a higher sum. … [Read more...]
Certificate of Deposit (CD)
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Certificate of Deposit (CD) Also termed time deposit. A bank or thrift issued certificate that shows a deposit of a specified sum of money. It has a maturity date (normally up to 5 years) and predetermined interest rate. It may be issued in any denomination.e … [Read more...]
Changes in Financial Position
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Changes in Financial Position Fund sources that originate from within the company’s operations and that alter its cash flow situation. For example, depreciation, capital expenditure, deferred taxes. … [Read more...]
Chartists
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Chartists Related: technical analysts. Individuals who chart trends in stocks, commodities and bonds to advise clients on basis of conclusions drawn. … [Read more...]
Cheapest to Deliver Issue
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Cheapest to Deliver Issue Treasury security that has the maximum implied repurchase rate; rate earned by futures contract seller by purchasing the issue and making delivery on the date of settlement. … [Read more...]
Chinese Wall
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Chinese Wall Barrier to communication between investment bankers who provide finance and traders, erected to eliminate any leakage of nonpublic information to traders. … [Read more...]
Churning
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Churning Method of enhancing trading commissions by brokers by means of carrying out excessive trading in a client's account … [Read more...]
Circle
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Circle Designated and potential underwriters "circle" the interest of investors in new issues before the final price is established. Circled customers commit to buy the issue provided it is being sold at a price that is previously agreed upon. If not, a first offer at the selling … [Read more...]
Circus Swap
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Circus Swap Currency swap carried out in fixed rate against variable U.S. dollar LIBOR payments. … [Read more...]
