Foreign Exchange Risk Risk that arises when short or long forex positions have to be offset or closed sustaining a loss due to unfavorable currency rate movement. … [Read more...]
Foreign Exchange Swap
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Foreign Exchange Swap Formal understanding to exchange predetermined amounts of currency A for currency B where the future date of exchange is decided upon during the making of agreement. … [Read more...]
Foreign Market
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Foreign Market Segment of internal market, comprising the systems for trading and issuing securities of entities that have domicile overseas. … [Read more...]
Foreign Market Beta
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Foreign Market Beta Tool to evaluate risk in foreign markets that is based on the capital asset pricing model. … [Read more...]
Foreign Official Dollar Reserves – FRODOR
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Foreign Official Dollar Reserves - FRODOR Ed Yardeni, an economist coined this term. It relates international liquidity to the impact that overseas central banks have over U.S. monetary policy. It is evaluated by taking the sum of Treasury and agency securities issued in the U.S. … [Read more...]
Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC)
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Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC) Special corporation designed to offer tax incentive for U.S. produced goods exports. The corporation was created by the 1984 Tax Reform Act. … [Read more...]
Foreign Tax Credit
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Foreign Tax Credit Credit received in the home country in domestic income tax payable for foreign taxes paid on earnings derived in overseas locations. … [Read more...]
Forfaiter
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Forfaiter One who buys from importers their promises to pay. … [Read more...]
Formula Basis
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Formula Basis System of selling new common stock issues where the SEC declares that the registration statement is in effect based on a price formula instead of on a given range of prices. … [Read more...]
48-Hour Rule
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48-Hour Rule PSA Uniform Practices rule that all pool information in To-Be-Announced (TBA) transactions be informed to buyers by the seller 48-hours before the agreed date of trade. … [Read more...]
Forward Contract
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Forward Contract Transaction where delivery of the commodity occurs after the contract is made. Such contracts are non-standardized and cannot be traded on organized exchanges. The actual delivery takes place in future, but during the initial trade the price is established. … [Read more...]
Forward Cover
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Forward Cover Sale or purchase of forward foreign currency so as to balance out a predictable future flow of cash inwards or outwards. … [Read more...]
Forward Delivery
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Forward Delivery Transactions where the actual settlement occurs on a predetermined future date and price for such transaction is determined at that time. … [Read more...]
Forward Differential
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Forward Differential Percentage difference in annualized form between forward and rates. … [Read more...]
Forward Discount
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Forward Discount A situation wherein forward price is lower than the spot price of a currency. … [Read more...]
Forward Earnings
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Forward Earnings Estimated, earnings of a company as predicted by analysts or from sources within the company. Different from trailing earnings owing to the fact that these are mere expectations and not actual figures. … [Read more...]
Forward Exchange Rate
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Forward Exchange Rate Rate of exchange fixed in present day for actual exchange at a date in future. … [Read more...]
Forward Fed Funds
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Forward Fed Funds Federal funds traded for delivery at future dates. … [Read more...]
Forward Forward Contract
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Forward Forward Contract Term used in Eurocurrencies. Refers to contracts where a fixed term deposit is agreed upon for future delivery at fixed price. … [Read more...]
