Finance US law that separated commercial from investment banking preventing commercial banks from underwriting corporate bonds and equities.

Finance Established provisions that promote free trade.

Finance Device by which the borrower holds the inventory in trust for the lender.

Finance Certificate, traded in the USA, that represents ownership of foreign stocks.

basic monetary unit of Afghanistan

Finance Value of a bond that appears on its face.

Finance Become due for payment.

Finance To have become due for payment.

Laddering involves building a portfolio of bonds with staggered maturities so that a portion of the portfolio will mature each year. To maintain the ladder, money that comes in from currently maturing bonds is typically invested in bonds with longer maturities within the range of the bond ladder.

Finance Partition of the universal set of risk measure so that projects that are in the same risk class can be compared.

Broker approval prior to effecting a short sale.

Finance Face value or principal of a bond.

Finance A mechanical device, however powered, intended for use in speedily discovering the answer to complex mathematical calculations.

M1: One measure of the money supply that includes all coins, currency held by the public, traveler's checks, checking account balances, NOW accounts, automatic transfer service accounts, and balances in credit unions. M2 : One measure of the money supply that includes M1, plus savings and small time deposits, overnight repos at commercial banks, and non-institutional money market accounts. A key economic indicator used to forecast inflation. M3 : One measure of the money supply that includes M2, plus large time deposits, repos of maturity greater than one day at commercial banks, and institutional money market accounts.

Finance Firm's cash balance as reported in its financial statements.

Finance firm's cash balance as reported in its financial statements

broad money: One measure of the money supply that includes M1, plus savings and small time deposits, overnight repos at commercial banks, and non-institutional money market accounts. This is a key economic indicator used to forecast inflation, since it is not as narrow as M1 and still relatively easy to track. All the components of M2 are very liquid, and the non-cash components can be converted into cash very easily.

Finance Speculative bank deposits that are moved around the international money markets to take advantage of currency and interest rate movements.

Finance The most liquid of assets, consisting of coin and banknotes. Government banks also regard deposits at the central bank as cash.

Finance 1. The practice of manipulating and managing money. 2. The capital involved in a project, especially the capital that has to be raised to start a new business. 3. A loan of money for a particular purpose, especially by a finance house.

Finance Form of inventory loan in which a public warehouse company acts as a control agent to supervize the inventory for the lender.

Finance The coins, notes, cheques, etc., accepted within a country as a proper medium of exchange in the conduct of business.

Finance Weak currency whose convertibility is, or is expected to become, restricted.

Finance Strong, freely convertible currency.

Finance Foreign currency held by a central bank for the purposes of exchange intervention and the settlement of intergovernmental claims.

Finance Specify the powers and responsibilities vested in the IMF by its members.