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Eighth
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EighthHistorical term used in the context of general equities. A specialist or another broker is bidding higher or offering lower than we are, often topping or undercutting us by an eighth.
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Term
The period of time during which a contract is in force.
Specialist
On an exchange, the member firm that is designated as the market maker (or dealer for a listed common stock). Member of a stock exchange who maintains a "fair and orderly market" in one or more securities.
Higher
Adjective meaning greater, larger: e.g. higher prices; (cannot be used as a verb, instead use raise).
Lower
To decrease (a price, tax rate, interest rate, etc.).
Eighth
Historical term used in the context of general equities. A specialist or another broker is bidding higher or offering lower than we are, often topping or undercutting us by an eighth.
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Eighteenth Bank
Eighteenth Bank is a top Japanese corporation in the field of banking, and its estimated market value is 0,760 million US dollars.
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Efficient Markets Theory (EMT)
Principle that all assets are correctly priced by the market, and that there are no bargains.
Efficient portfolio
A portfolio that provides the greatest expected return for a given level of risk or, equivalently, the lowest risk for a given expected return.
Efficient set
Graph representing a set of portfolios that maximize expected return at each level of portfolio risk.
Efficient surface
The set of portfolios that result from investor's preference for higher means, lower variance and higher (positive) skewness. The efficient surface is analogous (in three dimensions, mean, variance and skewness) to the efficient frontier (in two dimensions, mean and variance).
EFTPOS
Acronynm for Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale. Payment is transferred usually from a checking account at the point of sale.
Eighth
Either or order
Used in the context of general equities.
Either way market
In the interbank Eurodollar deposit market, an either-way market is one in which the bid and offered rates are identical.
Either-or facility
An agreement permitting a bank customer to borrow either domestic dollars from the bank's head office or Eurodollars from one of its foreign branches.
Elasticity of an option
Percentage change in the value of an option given a 1% change in the value of the option's underlying stock.
Elasticity of demand
The degree of buyers' responsiveness to price changes. Elasticity is measured as the percent change in quantity divided by the percent change in price.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Term
The period of time during which a contract is in force.
Specialist
On an exchange, the member firm that is designated as the market maker (or dealer for a listed common stock). Member of a stock exchange who maintains a "fair and orderly market" in one or more securities.
Higher
Adjective meaning greater, larger: e.g. higher prices; (cannot be used as a verb, instead use raise).
Lower
To decrease (a price, tax rate, interest rate, etc.).
Eighth
Historical term used in the context of general equities. A specialist or another broker is bidding higher or offering lower than we are, often topping or undercutting us by an eighth.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Eighteenth Bank
Eighteenth Bank is a top Japanese corporation in the field of banking, and its estimated market value is 0,760 million US dollars.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Efficient Markets Theory (EMT)
Principle that all assets are correctly priced by the market, and that there are no bargains.
Efficient portfolio
A portfolio that provides the greatest expected return for a given level of risk or, equivalently, the lowest risk for a given expected return.
Efficient set
Graph representing a set of portfolios that maximize expected return at each level of portfolio risk.
Efficient surface
The set of portfolios that result from investor's preference for higher means, lower variance and higher (positive) skewness. The efficient surface is analogous (in three dimensions, mean, variance and skewness) to the efficient frontier (in two dimensions, mean and variance).
EFTPOS
Acronynm for Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale. Payment is transferred usually from a checking account at the point of sale.
Eighth
Either or order
Used in the context of general equities.
Either way market
In the interbank Eurodollar deposit market, an either-way market is one in which the bid and offered rates are identical.
Either-or facility
An agreement permitting a bank customer to borrow either domestic dollars from the bank's head office or Eurodollars from one of its foreign branches.
Elasticity of an option
Percentage change in the value of an option given a 1% change in the value of the option's underlying stock.
Elasticity of demand
The degree of buyers' responsiveness to price changes. Elasticity is measured as the percent change in quantity divided by the percent change in price.
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