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Maturity Date Or Exercise Date
Definition: The date when the option or swap matures. If the option has not been exercised by this date, it expires and ceases to have any value. For an interest rate swap this is the date when the final interest exchanges are made. For a bond and currency swap, the principal is paid / exchanged.
Maturity Factoring
Definition: An arrangement that provides collection and insurance of accounts receivable.
Maturity Phase
Definition: A stage of company development in which earnings to grow at the rate of the general economy. Related: Three-phase DDM.
Maturity Spread
Definition: The difference in returns between bonds of different time lengths.
Maximum Capital Gains Mutual Fund
Definition: A mutual fund whose objective is to produce capital gains by investing in small or risky rapid-growth companies.
Maximum Expected Return Criterion (MERC)
Definition: Standard that one choose the asset with the highest anticipated return.
Maximum Price Fluctuation
Definition: The greatest amount by which the contract price can change, up or down, during one trading session, as fixed by exchange rules in the contract specification. Related: Limit price.
Maximum Return Criterion (MRC)
Definition: Standard that one choose the asset with the highest return.
May Day
Definition: The date of May 1, 1975, after which brokers were allowed to charge any brokerage commission, rather than a mandatory rate.
May Expand
Definition: Used in the context of general equities. Warning that the size of the order/total may be increased. See: "more behind it."
MBS Depository
Definition: A book-entry depository for GNMA securities. The depository was initially operated by MBSCC and is now a separately incorporated, participant-owned, limited-purpose trust company organized under the State of New York Banking Law.
MBS Servicing
Definition: The requirement that the mortgage servicer maintain payment of the full amount of contractually due principal and interest payments whether or not actually collected.
MC
Definition: The two-character ISO 3166 country code for MONACO.
MD
Definition: The two-character ISO 3166 country code for MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF.
MDL
Definition: The ISO 4217 currency code for the Moldovan Leu.
Meals And Entertainment Expense
Definition: A tax deduction allowed for meals and entertainment expenses incurred in the course of business.
Mean
Definition: The expected value of a random variable. Arithmetic average of a sample.
Mean Of The Sample
Definition: The arithmetic average; that is, the sum of the observations divided by the number of observations.
Mean-variance Analysis
Definition: Evaluation of risky prospects based on the expected value and variance of possible outcomes.
Mean-variance Criterion
Definition: The selection of portfolios based on the means and variances of their returns. The choice of the higher expected return portfolio for a given level of variance or the lower variance portfolio for a given expected return.
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