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Reserve Ratios
Definition: Specified percentages of deposits, established by the Federal Reserve Board, that banks must keep in a noninterest-bearing account at one of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks.
Reserve Requirements
Definition: The percentage of different types of deposits that member banks are required to hold on deposit at the Fed.
Reset Bonds
Definition: Bonds that allow the initial interest rates to be adjusted on specific dates in order that the bonds trade at the value they had when they were issued.
Reset Frequency
Definition: The frequency with which the floating rate changes.
Residential Mortgage
Definition: Mortgage on a residential property, tax-deductible for individuals up to $1 million.
Residential Property
Definition: Property that consists of homes, apartments, townhouses, and condominiums.
Residual Assets
Definition: Assets that remain after sufficient assets are dedicated to meet all senior debtholders' claims in full.
Residual Cover
Definition: The cash flow remaining after a project financing has been repaid, expressed as a percentage of the original loan. Residual cushion.
Residual Dividend Approach
Definition: An approach that suggests that a firm pay dividends if and only if acceptable investment opportunities for those funds are currently unavailable.
Residual Method
Definition: A method of allocating the purchase price for the acquisition of another firm among the acquired assets.
Residual Return
Definition: Return independent of the benchmark. The residual return is the return relative to beta times the benchmark return. To be exact, an asset's residual return equals its excess return minus beta times the benchmark excess return.
Residual Value
Definition: Usually refers to the value of a lessor's property at the time the lease expires.
Residuals
Definition: (1) Part of stock returns not explained by the explanatory variable (the market index return). Residuals measure the impact of firm-specific events during a particular period. (2) Remainder cash flows generated by pool collateral and those needed to fund bonds supported by the collateral.
Resiliency
Definition: Speed with which new orders respond to a change in prices.
Resistance
Definition: An effective upper bound on prices achieved because of many willing sellers at that price level.
Resistance Level
Definition: A price level above which it is supposedly difficult for a security or market to rise. Price ceiling at which technical analysts note persistent selling of a commodity or security. Antithesis of support level.
Resolution
Definition: A document that records a decision or action by a Board of Directors, or a bond resolution by a government entity authorizing a bond issue.
Resolution Funding Corporation (RefCorp)
Definition: A government agency established by Congress in 1989 to issue bailout bonds and raise funds for the activities of the Resolution Trust Corporation, as well as to administer struggling institutions inherited from the disbanded Federal Savings and Loan Corporation.
Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC)
Definition: A government agency established in 1989 and disbanded in 1996 that administered federal savings and loan institutions that were insolvent between 1989 and August 1992 by either bailing them out or merging them.
Resources
Definition: Factors needed to produce goods and services (natural, human, and capital goods).
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