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Threshold For Refinancing
Definition: The point when the weighted-average coupon of an MBS is at a level to induce homeowners to prepay the mortgage in order to refinance to a lower-rate mortgage, generally reached when the weighted-average coupon of the MBS is 2 percentage points or more above currently available mortgage rates.
Thrift
Definition: A financial institution that ordinarily possesses the same depository, credit, financial intermediary, and account transactional functions as a bank, but that is chiefly organized and primarily operates to promote savings and home mortgage lending rather than commercial lending. Also known as a savings bank, a savings association, a savings and loan association, or an S&L.
Thrift Institution
Definition: An organization formed as a depository for primarily consumer savings. Savings and loan associations and savings banks are thrift institutions.
Thrift Institution Advisory Council (TIAC)
Definition: A council, established following the passage of the Monetary Control Act of 1980, whose purpose is to provide information and views on the special needs and problems of thrifts. The group is comprised of representatives of savings banks, savings and loan associations, and creditor unions.
Thrift Plan
Definition: A defined contribution plan in which an employee contributes, usually on a before-tax basis, toward the ultimate benefits that will be provided. The employer usually agrees to match all or a portion of the employee's contributions.
Throughput Agreement
Definition: An agreement to put a specified amount of product per period through a particular facility. An example is an agreement to ship a specified amount of crude oil per period through a particular pipeline.
Throwback Rules
Definition: Rules that equitably tax the beneficiary of a trust that accumulates all or part of its income (rather than distributing it currently). It is an attempt to tax the beneficiary as if the income had been distributed currently. Irc § 665(b). For taxable years beginning after august 5, 1997, the throwback rules apply only to foreign trusts and certain domestic trusts. Irc § 665(c).
Tick
Definition: Refers to the minimum change in price a security can have, either up or down. Related: Point.
Tick Indicator
Definition: A market indicator based on the number of stocks whose last trade was an uptick or a downtick. Used as an indicator of market sentiment or psychology to try to predict the market's trend.
Tick-test Rules
Definition: SEC-imposed restrictions on when a short sale may be executed, intended to prevent investors from destabilizing the price of a stock when the market price is falling. A short sale can be made only when either (1) the sale price of the particular stock is higher than the last trade price (referred to as an uptick trade) or (2) if there is no change in the last trade price of the particular stock, the previous trade price must be higher than the trade price that preceded it (referred to as a zero uptick).
Ticker Symbol
Definition: An abbreviation assigned to a security for trading purposes.
Ticker Tape
Definition: Computerized device that relays to investors around the world the stock symbol and the latest price and volume on securities as they are traded.
Ticket
Definition: An abbreviation of order ticket.
Tier 1 And Tier 2
Definition: Descriptions of the capital adequacy of banks. Tier 1 refers to core capital while Tier 2 refers to items such as undisclosed resources.
Tight
Definition: In line with or extremely close to the inside market or last sale in a stock (+/- 1/8). On the money.
Tight Market
Definition: A market in which volume is high, trading is active and highly competitive, and consequently spreads between bid and ask prices are narrow.
Tight Money
Definition: When a restricted money supply makes credit difficult to secure. The antithesis of tight money is easy money.
Tiki
Definition: Tick of Dow Jones Industrial Average component issues.
Tilted Portfolio
Definition: An indexing strategyy that is linked to active management through the emphasis of a particular industry sector, selected performance factors such as earnings momentum, dividend yield, price-earnings ratio, or selected economic factors such as interest rates and inflation.
Time Decay
Definition: Related: Theta
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