Held To Maturity Security Investments in debt or equity securities that are purchased with the intention of holding them until maturity. This security is reported in the books at amortized cost and comes with a specific maturity date. … [Read more...]
Hell-or-High-Water Contract
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Hell-or-High-Water Contract Any contract under which cash payments are to be made to the project under any circumstance, without fail. For example, when no product sales are carried out. … [Read more...]
Herstatt Risk
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Herstatt Risk Also termed settlement risk. The risk inherent in forex trading that arises when one party delivers the forex currency but the financial institution that is the second party, fails to fulfill its obligations as per the contract. … [Read more...]
High-Coupon Bond Refunding
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High-Coupon Bond Refunding Replacement of a bond having a higher coupon with a low coupon one through refunding. … [Read more...]
High Price
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High Price The price of stock that is the highest point reached during intraday trades over a period of the previous 52 weeks. Stock splits are adjusted. … [Read more...]
High-Yield Bond
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High-Yield Bond Also termed junk bond. Generally refers to bonds having credit rating BB or below. … [Read more...]
Highly Leveraged Transaction (HLT)
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Highly Leveraged Transaction (HLT) The loan given to any highly leveraged firm by a bank. … [Read more...]
Historical Exchange Rate
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Historical Exchange Rate Used in accounting terminology to denote the exchange rate that was prevailing at the time of acquisition of an asset or liability. … [Read more...]
Hit
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Hit Dealers "hit" the bids of other dealers when they have an agreement to sell at bid prices quoted by the other dealers. … [Read more...]
Holder-of-Record Date
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Holder-of-Record Date Also termed date of record. The date when holders of record in any business’s stock ledger are established as authorized claimants to dividends and stock rights. … [Read more...]
Holding Company
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Holding Company Corporate entity that has sufficient ownership of voting stock of a different firm that allows it to elect or influence the top management there so that it has control over operations and management of the second firm. … [Read more...]
Holding Company Depository Receipt – HOLDR
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Holding Company Depository Receipt - HOLDR A Merrill Lynch product traded on the American Stock Exchange. Investors can buy and sell a group of stocks in a specific sector, industry or other classification with one transaction. … [Read more...]
Holding Period
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Holding Period The time period over which an individual continues to own an instrument. … [Read more...]
Holding Period Return
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Holding Period Return The yield rate that is applicable for a specific period of time. … [Read more...]
Homemade Dividend
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Homemade Dividend Getting a cash receipt from the sale of some shares of the total stockholding to match cash dividend disbursed by the company. … [Read more...]
Homemade Leverage
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Homemade Leverage Concept that when individuals lend or borrow in accordance with the same terms as the business, they can recreate the effects of corporate leverage. If prices are unfairly high on levered firms, investors borrow funds from personal accounts to purchase shares in … [Read more...]
Homeowners Insurance
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Homeowners Insurance Property insurance variant that protects the home against damages to the property itself, or to possessions contained within. Also covers accidents in the home or on the property. … [Read more...]
Homogeneity
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Homogeneity The measure or degree of similarity among items. … [Read more...]
Homogenous Expectations Assumption
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Homogenous Expectations Assumption Markowitz portfolio construction recommendation that investors generally carry similar expectations as regards different inputs such as covariances, variances and asset returns, that are used to determine efficient portfolios … [Read more...]
Honesty Bond
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Honesty Bond Bond by an organization guaranteeing the honesty and integrity of the issuer and/or its employees. The bond insures the holder against dishonest and illegal acts by employees. … [Read more...]
