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Nikkei




Nikkei

The common term for the Nihon Keizai newspaper, Japan's leading financial newspaper. The Nikkei usually refers to the price-weighted average of 225 stocks of the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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Term
The period of time during which a contract is in force.

Leading
Strategy used by a firm to accelerate payments, normally in response to exchange rate expectations.

Nikkei
The common term for the Nihon Keizai newspaper, Japan's leading financial newspaper. The Nikkei usually refers to the price-weighted average of 225 stocks of the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Average
An institution or person who gives the aval.

Stock
US equivalent of the British word "share", a block of shares with a nominal value of 100, or various kinds of fixed-interest securities; in Britain, goods stored ready for sale, raw materials, work in progress and finished but unsold products.

Exchange
A marketplace in which shares, options and futures on stocks, bonds, commodities, and indexes are traded.



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Nikkei stock average
Applies mainly to international equities. Price-weighted average of 225 stocks of the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange started on May 16, 1949. Japanese equivalent of the US Dow.

Nikko Cordial
Nikko Cordial is a top Japanese corporation in the field of diversified financials, and its estimated market value is 9,040 million US dollars.



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Transaction in which the contract is settled the day after the trade is executed.

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The contract settling immediately after the nearby futures contract.

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A set or collection of something.

Nifty Fifty
Institutional investor's 50 most popular stocks.

Night safe
A safe set in the wall of a bank in which business customers can deposit money in the evenings and at weekends when the bank is closed.

Nikkei

Nikkei stock average
Applies mainly to international equities. Price-weighted average of 225 stocks of the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange started on May 16, 1949. Japanese equivalent of the US Dow.

Nil paid
Security that are tradeable but originally posed no cost to the seller.

Nine bond rule
An NYSE rule requiring that orders for nine bonds or fewer stay on the floor for one hour to seek a market.

NM
Abbreviation for "not meaningful".

No action letter
A letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission agreeing that the commission will take no civil or criminal action against a party, regarding a specific activity.

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