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Cabinet Bid
A cabinet bid, which is a facility enabling holders of deep out-of-the-money options to close their ...
Cabinet Crowd
NYSE members who trade bonds with a low daily traded volume....
Cabinet Security
A stock or bond listed on a major exchange with low daily traded volume....
Cable
The exchange rate between British pound sterling and the U.S. dollar....
CAC 40
The main index of the French stock market introduced in 1988 with a base value of 1,000 and made up ...
Cadbury Committee
The unofficial name for the first Code of Best Practice on corporate governance, published in 1992. ...
Calendar Effect
The theory that certain days of the week, weeks of the month, and months of the year are more likely...
Calendar Spread
Applies to derivative products. The sale (purchase) of a near month call option (put option) and the...
Call
An option that gives the holder the right to buy the underlying asset....
Call Date
A date before maturity, specified at issuance, when the issuer of a bond may retire part of the bond...
Call Feature
Part of the indenture agreement between the bond issuer and buyer describing the schedule and price ...
Call Loan
A loan repayable on demand. Sometimes used as a synonym for broker loan or broker overnight loan....
Call Money Rate
Also called the broker loan rate , the interest rate that banks charge brokers to finance margin loa...
Call Option
An option contract that gives its holder the right (but not the obligation) to purchase a specified ...
Call Payment
A payment made by investors for new shares. The term would apply to payments made when a company fir...
Call Premium
Premium in price above the par value of a bond or share of preferred stock that must be paid to hold...
Call Price
The price, specified at issuance, at which the issuer of a bond may retire part of the bond at a spe...
Call Protection
A feature of some callable bonds that establishes an initial period when the bonds may not be called...
Call Provision
An embedded option granting a bond issuer the right to buy back all or part of an issue prior to mat...
Call Risk
The combination of cash flow uncertainty and reinvestment risk introduced by a call provision....
Call Warrant
Warrants which give their owner the right to buy an underlying instrument (e.g. a share), and which ...
Callability
Feature of a security that allows the issuer to redeem the security prior to maturity by calling it ...
Callable
Applies mainly to convertible securities. Redeemable by the issuer before the scheduled maturity und...
Canadian Dealing Network
The organized OTC market of Canada. Formerly known as the Canadian Over-the-Counter Automated Tradin...



