Understanding the Markets
This text is a comprehensive resource from a leading financial management consultant for global banks and institutions which looks at the financial markets that support the trading, dealing and investment processes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Understanding the Markets
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- CAC 40
- French Equity Index.
- Caja de valores
- Depository/custodian for Argentinian shares.
- Calendar spread
- The simultaneous purchase (or sale) of a futures or option contract for one date and the sale (or purchase) of a similar futures contract for a different date. See Spread
- Call deposits
- Deposits which can be called (or withdrawn) at the option of the lender (and in some cases the borrower) after a specified period. The period is short, usually one or two days, and interest is paid at prevailing short-term rates (call account).
- Call option
- An option that gives the seller the right, but not the obligation, to buy a specified quantity of the underlying asset at a fixed price, on or before a specified date. The buyer of a call option has the obligation (because they have bought the right) to make delivery of the underlying asset if the option is exercised by the seller.
- Call spread
- The purchase of a call option coupled with the sale of another call option at a different strike, expecting a limited rise or fall in the value of the underlying.
- Callable bond
- A bond that the issuer has the right to redeem prior to maturity by paying some specified call price.
- Cap
- Also ceiling. A package of interest rate options whereby, at each of a series of future fixing dates, if an agreed reference rate such as LIBOR is higher than the strike rate, the option buyer receives the difference between them, calculated on an agreed...
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