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Counter-Trend Trading
Definition: In technical analysis, the method by which a trader takes a position contrary to the current market direction in anticipation of a change in that direction.
Countercyclical Stocks
Definition: Stocks whose price tends to rise when the economy is in recession or the market is bearish, and vice versa.
Counterpart Items
Definition: In the balance of payments, counterpart items are analogous to unrequited transfers in the current account. They arise through the double-entry system in balance of payments accounting and refer to adjustments in reserves owing to monetization or demonetization of gold, allocation or cancellation of SDRs, and revaluation of the various components of total reserves.
Counterparties
Definition: The parties on either side of an interest rate swap or a currency, equity or commodity swap, or to an options or futures position.
Counterparty
Definition: The other participant, including intermediaries, in a swap or contract.
Counterparty Risk
Definition: The risk that the other party to an agreement will default. In an options contract, the risk to the option buyer that the option writer will not buy or sell the underlying as agreed.
Counterpurchase
Definition: Exchange of goods between two parties under two distinct contracts expressed in monetary terms.
Country Allocations
Definition: The percentages of a fund's net assets distributed to securities of various countries. These percentages serve as an indicator of a fund's diversification and its vulnerability to fluctuations in foreign financial markets or currency exchange rates.
Country Beta
Definition: Covariance of a national economy's rate of return and the rate of return of the world economy divided by the variance of the world economy.
Country Diversification
Definition: Investment of a global or international portfolio's assets in securities of various countries.
Country Economic Risk
Definition: Developments in a national economy that can affect the outcome of an international financial transaction.
Country Financial Risk
Definition: Centers around the ability of a national economy to generate enough foreign exchange to meet payments of interest and principal on its foreign debt.
Country Risk
Definition: The general level of political, financial, and economic uncertainty in a country which impacts the value of the country's bonds and equities. See: Sovereign risk.
Country Selection
Definition: A type of active international management that measures the contribution to performance attributable to investing in the better-performing stock markets of the world.
Coupon
Definition: The contractual interest obligation a bond or debenture issuer covenants to pay to its debtholders.
Coupon (Coupon Rate)
Definition: A fixed dollar amount of interest payable per annum, stated as a percentage of principal value, usually payable in semiannual installments.
Coupon Bond
Definition: A bond featuring coupons that must be presented to the issuer in order to receive interest payments.
Coupon Equivalent Yield
Definition: True interest cost expressed on the basis of a 365-day year.
Coupon Pass
Definition: Canvassing by the desk of primary dealers to determine the inventory and maturities of their Treasury securities. The desk then decides whether to buy or sell certain issues (coupons) in order to add or withdraw reserves.
Coupon Payments
Definition: A bond's interest payments.
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