offset transaction
1offset — Taking a second futures or options position opposite to the initial or opening position. Selling (or purchasing) futures contracts of the same delivery month purchased (or sold) during an earlier transaction or making (or taking) delivery of the… …
2Offset agreement — Defense offset agreements are legal trade practices in the aerospace and military industries. These commercial practices do not need state regulations but, since the purchasers are mostly military departments of sovereign nations comparable to… …
3Transaction log — Binary log redirects here. For logarithms in base 2, see Binary logarithm. In the field of databases in computer science, a transaction log (also database log or binary log) is a history of actions executed by a database management system to… …
4Offset — Elimination of a long or short position by making an opposite transaction. Related: liquidation. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. offset off‧set 1 [ˈɒfset, ˌɒfˈset ǁ ˈɒːfset, ˌɒːfˈset] verb offset PTandPP offsett …
5Offset — 1. To liquidate a futures position by entering an equivalent, but opposite, transaction which eliminates the delivery obligation. 2. To reduce an investor s net position in an investment to zero, so that no further gains or losses will be… …
6Carbon offset — Part of a series on Green economics Concepts …
7Currency transaction tax — For the more specific types of currency transaction taxes , see Tobin tax and Spahn tax. See also: Financial transaction tax A currency transaction tax is a tax placed on a specific type of currency transaction for a specific purpose. This term… …
8Structured settlement factoring transaction — A structured settlement factoring transaction describes the selling of future structured settlement payments (or, more accurately, rights to receive the future structured settlement payments). People who receive structured settlement payments… …
9ex-pit transaction — The closing out of a futures position off the exchange floor. Effected when two hedgers, one long and one short, make a private deal in the cash market, and no longer need their (equal and opposite) futures contracts to hedge. The hedgers contact …
10Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… …
