interest on shares

  • 11Shares — A unit of ownership interest in a corporation or financial asset. While owning shares in a business does not mean that the shareholder has direct control over the business s day to day operations, being a shareholder does entitle the possessor to …

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  • 12shares — Stock Stock (st[o^]k), n. [AS. stocc a stock, trunk, stick; akin to D. stok, G. stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf. {Stokker}, {Stucco}, and {Tuck} a rapier.] 1. The stem …

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  • 13interest — [[t]ɪ̱ntrəst, tərest[/t]] ♦ interests, interesting, interested 1) N UNCOUNT: also a N If you have an interest in something, you want to learn or hear more about it. There has been a lively interest in the elections in the last two weeks... His… …

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  • 14Interest Sensitive Stock — Any stock with a price that is extremely sensitive to changes in interest rates. Interest sensitive stocks are shares that will see large price changes relative to small movements in the risk free rate. Stocks with large betas, which gauge a… …

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  • 15Interest Earning Facility 2 (IEF 2) — CME Clearing program developed to support the acceptance of money market mutual fund shares at CME to be used as performance bond collateral and to satisfy security deposit requirements. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Glossary …

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  • 16term shares — Shares that cannot be sold for a given period (term). They are usually shares in a building society that cannot be cashed on demand and consequently carry a higher rate of interest …

    Big dictionary of business and management

  • 17Performance shares — Shares of stock given to managers on the basis of performance as measured by earnings per share and similar criteria. A control device used by shareholders to tie management to the self interest of shareholders. The New York Times Financial… …

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  • 18minority interest — Shares of stock in a corporation which are not sufficient in number to elect directors or otherwise control the action to be taken by the corporation. 18 Am J2d Corp § 496 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 19Security interest — A security interest is a property interest created by agreement or by operation of law over assets to secure the performance of an obligation, usually the payment of a debt.[1] It gives the beneficiary of the security interest certain… …

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  • 20short interest — Total number of shares of a security that investors have sold short and that have not been repurchased to close out the short position. Usually, investors sell short to profit from price declines. As a result, the short interest is often an… …

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