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Interim Dividend
Definition: The declaration and payment of a dividend prior to annual earnings determination.
Interim Financing
Definition: A short-term loan made to a company on the condition that a takeout will follow with long-term or intermediate financing.
Interim Loan
Definition: Temporary financing, usually for construction; not a mortgage.
Interim Rate Of Return
Definition: The rate of return earned between cash flows.
Interim Statement
Definition: A financial statement that reflects only a limited period of a company's financial statement, not the entire fiscal year.
Interlocking Directorate
Definition: Describes cross-memberships of directors on each other's company Board of Directors.
Intermarket Sector Spread
Definition: The spread between the interest rate offered in two sectors of the bond market for issues of the same maturity.
Intermarket Spread Swaps
Definition: An exchange of one bond for another based on the manager's projection of a realignment of spreads between sectors of the bond market.
Intermarket Surveillance Information System (ISIS)
Definition: A database that distributes information from all the major stock exchanges in the United States.
Intermarket Trading System (ITS)
Definition: Electronic communications network linking the trading floors of seven registered exchanges to permit trading among them in stocks listed on either the NYSE or AMEX and one or more regional exchanges. Through ITS, any broker or market maker on the floor of any participating exchange can reach other participants for an execution whenever the nationwide quote shows a better price available. A floor broker on the exchange can enter an ITS order to assure excecution of all of an offering or bid, instead of splitting it with competing brokers.
Intermediate Service Provider
Definition: Assists in processing tax return information between the ERO (or the taxpayer, in the case of online filing) and the Transmitter.
Intermediate Targets
Definition: An intermediate target is a variable (such as the money supply) that is not directly under the control of the central bank, but that does respond fairly quickly to policy actions, is observable frequently and bears a predictable relationship to the ultimate goals of policy.
Intermediate Trend
Definition: General movement in price data that lasts from three weeks to six months.
Intermediate-term
Definition: Typically one-ten years.
Intermediated Market
Definition: A financial market in which some financial institution stands between counterparties to financial transactions.
Intermediation
Definition: Investment through a financial institution. Related: Disintermediation.
Intermittency
Definition: When a non-linear dynamical system alternates between periodic and chaotic behavior. See: Chaos, Dynamical Systems.
Internal Auditor
Definition: An employee of a company who analyzes the company's accounting records to that the company is following and complying with all regulations.
Internal Expansion
Definition: Growth of assets resulting from internal financing or internally generated cash flow.
Internal Finance
Definition: Finance generated within a firm by retained earnings and depreciation.
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