Intermarket Sector Spread Difference in the interest rates on bonds with the same maturity from two different sectors of the bond market. … [Read more...]
Intermarket Spread Swaps
Intermarket Spread Swaps Using the money manager’s prediction of readjustment of spreads among sectors of bond markets to exchange one bond for another. … [Read more...]
Intermediate-Term
Intermediate-Term Generally denotes a one – ten year period. … [Read more...]
Intermediation
Intermediation Related to disintermediation. Investing carried out through another financial entity. … [Read more...]
Internal Finance
Internal Finance The funding generated inside the business by depreciation and retained earnings. … [Read more...]
Internal Growth Rate
Internal Growth Rate The highest rate at which expansion can occur in a firm without external source of funding. Also represents growth that can be attributed to cash flows held back by the business. … [Read more...]
Internal Market
Internal Market Compare with external market. The platforms where securities are issued and traded in both foreign market and domestic market in a nation. … [Read more...]
Internal Measure
Internal Measure Time, as in number of days, over which operations can be funded without additional income by a firm. … [Read more...]
Internally Efficient Market
Internally Efficient Market Operationally efficient market. Market where investors pay true costs for obtaining transactions services. … [Read more...]
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development – IBRD or World Bank
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - IBRD or World Bank Gives loans to nations for economically important projects at almost conventional terms. … [Read more...]
International Banking Facility (IBF)
International Banking Facility (IBF) The branch established in the U.S. to do carry out Eurocurrency business by an American bank. … [Read more...]
International Bonds
International Bonds Refers to Eurobonds, foreign bonds and global bonds. … [Read more...]
International Depository Receipt (IDR)
International Depository Receipt (IDR) A bank receipt that is evidence of stock ownership in a foreign corporation whose stocks the bank has in form of a trust. IDR structure allows the corporation to avoid fulfilling all the regulatory issuing requirements that are in force in the … [Read more...]
International Diversification
International Diversification Risk management and reduction method based on spreading investments across different countries. In different nations the economic cycles follow different patterns and cycles, thus the variability of returns from the portfolio is minimized. … [Read more...]
International Finance Subsidiary
International Finance Subsidiary Subsidiaries created with the primary role of issuing debentures in foreign markets, and carrying out investments with these funds there. The interest payable is received by foreign investors who are outside the purview of U.S. withholding tax. … [Read more...]
International Fisher Effect
International Fisher Effect Theory that the difference between interest rates in two different countries is an unbiased indicator of the spot rate changes that will occur in future. … [Read more...]
International Fund
International Fund Mutual funds that are limited to investing only in assets and securities out of the U.S. … [Read more...]
International Market
International Market Related: external market. Platform for securities trading, where they are issued in many countries simultaneously. … [Read more...]
International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund Organization established in 1944 to oversee and supervise exchange arrangements of countries that are its members and to aid with short term balance of payments mismatches by making foreign currency loans to them. … [Read more...]
International Monetary Market (IMM)
International Monetary Market (IMM) Related to Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). A CME division set up in 1972 to deal with financial futures transactions. … [Read more...]




