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51Mean-preserving spread — In probability and statistics, a mean preserving spread (MPS)[1] is a change from one probability distribution A to another probability distribution B, where B is formed by spreading out one or more portions of A s probability density function… …
52Credit risk — Categories of financial risk Credit risk Concentration risk Market risk Interest rate risk Currency risk Equity risk Commodity risk Liquidity risk Refinancing risk …
53credit spread — Applies to derivative products. Difference in the value of two options, when the value of the one sold exceeds the value of the one bought. One sells a credit spread. Antithesis of a debit spread Related: quality spread. Bloomberg Financial… …
54Liquidity risk — In finance, liquidity risk is the risk that a given security or asset cannot be traded quickly enough in the market to prevent a loss (or make the required profit).Types of Liquidity Risk#Asset Liquidity An asset cannot be sold due to lack of… …
55interest rate risk — ( IRR) The potential that changes in market rates of interest will reduce earnings and/or capital. The risk that changes in prevailing interest rates will adversely affect assets, liabilities, capital, income, and/or expense at different times or …
56Yield Curve Risk — The risk of experiencing an adverse shift in market interest rates associated with investing in a fixed income instrument. The risk is associated with either a flattening or steepening of the yield curve, which is a result of changing yields… …
57Credit spread — Related:Quality spread * * * credit spread UK US noun [U] ► FINANCE, STOCK MARKET the difference between the interest paid on bonds that have a low level of risk, such as those sold by the US Treasury, and the interest paid on those that have a… …
58Global spread of H5N1 — The global spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 in birds is considered a significant pandemic threat.While other H5N1 strains are known, they are significantly different from a current, highly pathogenic H5N1 strain on a genetic level, making the… …
59Skewness risk — denotes that observations are not spread symmetrically around an average value. As a result, the average and the median are different. Skewness risk applies to any quantitative model that relies on a symmetric distribution (such as the normal… …
60Kurtosis risk — denotes that observations are spread in a wider fashion than the normal distribution entails. In other words, fewer observations cluster near the average and more observations populate the extremes either far above or far below the average… …
