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Not Rated
Definition: A rating service indicator, neither positive nor negative, showing that a security or company has not been rated.
Not-for-profit
Definition: An organization established for charitable, humanitarian, or educational purposes that is exempt from some taxes and in which no one in profits or losses.
Not-sufficient-funds Check
Definition: A bank check having insufficient funds to back it.
Note
Definition: Debt instruments with initial maturities longer than one year and shorter than 10 years.
Note Agreement
Definition: A contract for privately placed debt.
Note Issuance Facility (NIF)
Definition: An agreement by which a syndicate of banks indicates a willingness to accept short-term notes from borrowers and resell these notes in the Eurocurrency markets.
Notes To The Financial Statements
Definition: A detailed set of notes immediately following the financial statements in an annual report that explain and expand on the information in the financial statements.
Notice Day
Definition: A day on which notices of intent to deliver pertaining to a specified delivery month may be issued. Related: Delivery notice.
Notice Of Intent To Deliver
Definition: A notice that must be presented by the seller of a futures contract to the clearing organization prior to delivery. The clearing organization then assigns the notice and subsequent delivery instrument to a buyer. Also Notice of Delivery.
Notice Of Meeting
Definition: The legal one-page notice to security holders stating the date, time and place of the shareholder meeting. This page is normally attached to the front of the proxy statement.
Notice Period
Definition: The time during which the buyer of a futures contract can be called upon to accept delivery. Typically, the 3 to 6 weeks preceding the expiration of the contract.
Notification Date
Definition: The day the option is either exercised or expires.
Notional Principal
Definition: In an interest rate swap, forward rate agreement, or other derivative instrument, the amount or, in a currency swap, each of the amounts to which interest rates are applied in order to calculate periodic payment obligations. Also called the notional amount, the contract amount, the reference amount, and the currency amount.
Notional Principal Amount
Definition: In an interest rate swap, the predetermined dollar principal on which the exchanged interest payments are based.
Nouveau Marche
Definition: An equity market unit of the Paris Bourse that deals solely in innovative, high-growth companies.
Novation
Definition: Defeasance whereby the firm's debt is cancelled.
NP
Definition: The two-character ISO 3166 country code for NEPAL.
NPR
Definition: The ISO 4217 currency code for the Nepalese Rupee.
NPV Profile
Definition: A graph of NPV as a function of the discount rate.
NR
Definition: The two-character ISO 3166 country code for NAURU.
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