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High-premium Convertible Debenture
Definition: A bond with a long-term, high-premium, common stock conversion feature. It also offers a competitive interest rate. This type of investment vehicle is aimed at bond investors who want to be able to convert into stock to hedge against inflation.
High-tech Stock
Definition: Stocks of companies operating in high-technology fields.
High-yield Bond
Definition: See: Junk bond
Highjacking
Definition: Japanese term for a takeover.
Highly Confident Letter
Definition: An investment banking firm's letter indicating that the firm is highly confident it will be able to arrange financing for a securities deal.
Highly Leveraged Transaction (HLT)
Definition: Bank loan to a highly leveraged firm.
Highs
Definition: Stocks that have hit an all-time high for the current 52-week time period.
Hire Purchase
Definition: The right to purchase an asset by the user of the asset according to a pre-agreed method. The user may be the owner for tax purposes.
Historic Structure
Definition: A building that is officially recognized for its historic significance and has special status under the 1976 Tax Reform Act which encourages rehabilitation and discourages demolition or substantial alteration of the structure.
Historical Cost
Definition: Describes the accounting cost carried in the books for a current cost of the item.
Historical Cost Accounting Convention
Definition: An accounting technique that values an asset for balance sheet purposes at the price paid for the asset at the time of its acquisition.
Historical Exchange Rate
Definition: An accounting term that refers to the exchange rate in effect at the time an asset or liability is acquired.
Historical Trading Range
Definition: The range of price over which a security or a commodity has traded since listing on a exchange.
Historical Volatility
Definition: Fluctuations estimated from a historical time series.
Historical Yield
Definition: A measure of a mutual fund's yield over a specific period of time, e.g., 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, or year to date.
Hit The Bid
Definition: A dealer who agrees to sell at the bid price quoted by another dealer is said to "hit" that bid. Antithesis of take the offer.
Hit The Ribbon
Definition: Used in the context of general equities. See: Print.
HK
Definition: The two-character ISO 3166 country code for HONG KONG.
HKD
Definition: The ISO 4217 currency code for theHong Kong Dollar.
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