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21Add-On — Additional shares put on the market by a company that has already gone public. Reasons why a company might use add on financing include raising cash to fund existing operations, expanding operations or paying for a new project. While an add on is …
22Discount rate — The interest rate that the Federal Reserve charges a bank to borrow funds when a bank is temporarily short of funds. Collateral is necessary to borrow, and such borrowing is quite limited because the Fed views it as a privilege to be used to meet …
23discount rate — The interest rate charged on loans by the Federal Reserve Bank. Chicago Board of Trade glossary The interest rate charged by the Federal Reserve to its member banks (banks which belong to the Federal Reserve System) for funds they borrow. This… …
24TCF Financial Corporation — (NYSE|TCB) is a financial services holding company based in Wayzata, Minnesota, USA, employing more than 5,600 people. [ [http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=TCB] Yahoo! Finance profile for TCF Financial Corp, accessed January 10, 2006] The holding… …
25Investment style — refers to different style characteristics of equities, bonds or financial derivatives within a given investment philosophy. Theory would favor a combination of big capitalization, passive and value. Of course one could almost get that when… …
26Rex Paterson — Rex Munro Paterson OBE (born 1902 in London, died 1978 in Hampshire) was a British agricultural pioneer whose extensive business and meticulous record keeping enabled him to carry out research and development in dairy farming systems on a scale… …
27May 2008 in Pakistan — May 31: Clocks in Pakistan were moved forward by an hour on Saturday, midnight as part of the government’s energy conservation programme. (Dawn.com) (Bloomberg) May 27: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) on Tuesday agreed to most points of the PPP… …
28Fisher, Alan — ▪ British labour leader born June 20, 1922, Birmingham, Warwickshire [now West Midlands], Eng. died March 20, 1988, Gwynedd county, Wales British labour leader, general secretary of the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) who improved …
29Call Price — The price at which a bond or a preferred stock can be redeemed by the issuer. This price is set at the time the security is issued. Also referred to as redemption price . For example, let s say the TSJ Sports Conglomerate issues 100,000 preferred …
30shareholder value — An approach to business planning that places the maximization of the value of shares to those who hold them other business objectives. Normally, shareholder value can be increased in three ways: dividend payments, appreciation in the value of the …
