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Stock Exchange Automated Quotation System (SEAQ)
Definition: London's Nasdaq system.
Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong (SEHK)
Definition: Only stock exchange located in Hong Kong.
Stock Exchange Of Singapore (SES)
Definition: The only stock exchange in Singapore.
Stock Exchange Of Thailand
Definition: The major securities market of Thailand.
Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE)
Definition: Formerly the Bombay stock exchange, the BSE accounts for more than one-third of Indian trading volume.
Stock Exchanges
Definition: Formal organizations, approved and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that are made up of members who use the facilities to exchange certain common stocks. The two major national stock exchanges are the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the American Stock Exchange (ASE or AMEX). Five regional stock exchanges include the Midwest, Pacific, Philadelphia, Boston, and Cincinnati. The Arizona Stock Exchange is an after-hours electronic marketplace where anonymous participants trade stocks via personal computers.
Stock Index
Definition: Index like the Dow Jones Industrial Average that tracks a portfolio of stocks.
Stock Index Future
Definition: A security that uses composite stock indexes to allow investors to speculate on the performance of the entire market, or to hedge against losses in long or short positions. The settlement of the contracts is in cash.
Stock Index Option
Definition: An option in which the underlying is a common stock index.
Stock Index Swap
Definition: A swap involving a stock index. The other asset involved in a stock index swap can be another stock index (a stock-for-stock swap), a debt index (a debt-for-stock swap), or any other financial asset or financial price index.
Stock Insurance Company
Definition: An insurance company owned by a group of stockholders, who are not necessarily policyholders.
Stock Jockey
Definition: A stock broker who frequently buys and sells shares in a client's portfolios.
Stock List
Definition: The department within a stock exchange that oversees compliance with listing requirements and exchange regulations.
Stock Market
Definition: Also called the equity market, the market for trading equities.
Stock Option
Definition: An option whose underlying asset is the common stock of a corporation.
Stock Power
Definition: A power of attorney form giving ownership of a security to another person, brokerage firm, bank, or lender after it has been sold or pledged to that party.
Stock Purchase Plan
Definition: A plan allowing employees of a company to purchase shares of the company, often at a discount or with matching employer funds.
Stock Rating
Definition: An evaluation by a rating agency of the expected financial performance or inherent risk of common stocks.
Stock Record
Definition: The accounting a brokerage firm keeps of all securities held in inventory.
Stock Replacement Strategy
Definition: A strategy for enhancing a portfolio's return, used when the futures contract is expensive according to its theoretical price. The strategy involves a swap between the futures and a Treasury bill and stock portfolio.
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