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Long




Long

To have bought more of something than one has sold of it.  



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London Interbank Bid Rate (LIBID)
The bid rate that a Euromarket bank is willing to pay to attract a deposit from another Euromarket bank in London.

London Interbank Offered Rate
A short-term interest rate often quoted as a 1,3,6-month rate for U.S. dollars.

London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE)
A leading market for trading options and futures on euro money market derivatives.

London Metal Exchange (LME)
A market for trading base metals, where traded options contracts are available against the underlying futures contract.

London Stock Exchange (LSE)
The U.K.'s six regional exchanges joined together in 1973 to form the stock exchange of Great Britain and Ireland, later named the LSE.

Long

Long bonds
Bonds with a long current maturity. The "long bond" is the 30-year US Treasury bond.

Long coupons
1) Bonds or notes with a long current maturity. 2) A bond on which one of the coupon periods, usually the first, is longer than the other periods or the standard period.

Long hedge
The purchase of a futures contract in anticipation of actual purchases in the cash market.

Long leg
The part of an option spread in which an agreement to buy the underlying security is made.

Long market value
The market value of a security, excluding options, as of the close of the last business day.

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