Decimalization
The process of Switching over the reporting of security prices and related information from fractions to decimals.
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Allowance for depreciation,
Accrual of discount,
Agency security,
Amortization of premium,
Asked price,
Asking price,
Asset-backed security,
At par,
All or any part,
At best,
At call,
Adjusted futures price,
At risk,
Add-on service,
Abstract of title,
Action to quiet title,
Assignment to creditors,
Attorney in fact,
Assignment of mortgage,
A shares,
Average price per share,
Aggregate exercise price,
At the money,
Across the board,
Action,
Additional paid-in capital,
Against the box,
At the bell,
At the close,
At the figure,
At the full,
At the market,
At the opening order,
Automated Pricing and Reporting System,
Away from the market,
Below the line,
Books of final entry,
Books of original entry,
Banking Act of 1933,
Bid-to-cover ratio,
Book-entry security,
Bureau of Public Debt,
Brought over the wall,
Buying on margin,
Buy on close,
Buy on opening,
Buy the book,
Balance of payments,
Board of Governors,
Breaking the syndicate,
Bill of exchange,
Bill of sale,
Breach of trust,
By the book,
B shares,
Buy and write,
Breadth-of-market theory,
Beat the gun,
Cost Of Goods Sold,
Cost of sales,
Cabinet security,
Call price,
Certificate of Participation,
Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures,
Conversion parity price,
Conversion price,
Convertible security,
Code of procedure,
Capitalization of income,
Capital formation,
Consumer Price Index,
Cost of Living Adjustment,
Cost-of-living index,
Council of Economic Advisers,
Cash and carry trade,
Cash price,
Chasing the market,
Cheapest to deliver,
Chicago Board of Trade,
Commodities Exchange Act,
Cost-of-living rider,
Certificate of stock,
Corporate action,
Cost of carry,
Certificate of title,
Class action suit,
Contract for deed,
Cancellation of debt,
Certificate of Claim,
Cost of debt capital,
Cost of funds,
C shares,
Class of options,
Close to the money,
Certificate of Occupancy,
Cloud on title,
Cash or Deferred Arrangement,
Class A Shares,
Class B Shares,
Crash of 1929,
Crash of 1987,
Child and dependent care credit,
Coefficient of determination,
Cup and handle,
Certificate of delivery,
Close a position,
Closing price,
Cornering the market,
Curbs in,
Deposit in transit,
Date of issue,
Date of payment,
Digested security,
Dollar price,
Droplock security,
Division of Enforcement,
Division of Investment Management,
Division of Market Regulation,
Date of record,
Dividend in arrears,
Desk (the),
Division of labor,
Delivery price,
Derivative security,
De-escalation clause,
De facto,
Due process,
Durable Power of Attorney,
Date of maturity,
Debtor in possession,
Debtor-in-possession financing,
Deed of Release,
Deed of Trust,
Discharge of bankruptcy,
Discharge of lien,
Due-on-sale clause,
Deep in the money,
Deep out of the money,
Double witching hour,
Deed of Surrender,
Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Distressed security,
Dogs of the Dow,
Depth of market,
Earnings report,
Eurodollar certificate of deposit,
Escrowed to maturity,
Exchangeable security,
Exempt security,
Either-or order,
ECU,
ECI,
Edge Act,
E-mini,
Exchange for futures,
Exchange for physical,
Exchange of spot,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
First In First Out,
Form 10-Q,
Federal Savings and Loan Association,
Flight to quality,
Flow of funds,
Full price,
Fill or kill,
Front-ending an order,
Forward P/E,
Factors of production,
Favorable balance of trade,
Free market price,
Forward price,
Futures price,
Fee-for-service,
Form 8-K,
Form S-1,
Floating security,
Friends and family offering,
Fair Credit Reporting Act,
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act,
FRA,
Full faith and credit,
Family of funds,
Fund of funds,
Free and clear,
Federal Insurance Contributions Act,
Free right of exchange,
Graduated security,
Glass-Steagall Act,
G-7,
GDP implicit price deflator,
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
G-8,
Growth and income fund,
Gather in the stops,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976,
Hit the bid,
House of issue,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,
Holder in due course,
Home equity line of credit,
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act,
Head and shoulders,
Hammering the market,
Held at the opening,
Holding the market,
Horizontal price movement,
In escrow,
Inflation-indexed security,
Investment security,
In-house,
Investment Advisor Act of 1940,
Investment Company Act of 1940,
In line,
Insider Trading sanctions Act of 1984,
Internal Rate of Return,
Indication of interest,
In intestacy,
In play,
In-process research and development,
I/O strip,
In-service withdrawal,
Imbalance of orders,
In and out,
In sympathy,
In the tank,
Jointly and severally,
Jumping the gun,
Joint and several liability,
Joint and survivor annuity,
Last In First Out,
Lender of last resort,
Law of one price,
Letter security,
Lending at a rate,
Limit-on-close order,
Limit order information system,
Limit price,
Law of demand,
Law of supply,
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange,
Letter of comment,
Line of credit,
Loan-to-cost,
Loan-to-value,
Lock-in,
Leading the market,
Locked in,
Long-term gain or loss,
Level I quotes,
Marketable security,
Market conversion price,
Mortgage-backed security,
Mortgage pass-through security,
Make a market,
Market on close order,
Mark-to-market,
Medium of exchange,
Marginal propensity to consume,
Money at call,
Maximum price fluctuation,
Negotiable certificate of deposit,
Negotiable Order of Withdrawal,
Negotiable security,
Notice of Sale,
National Association of Securities Dealers,
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system,
No-Action Letter,
Null and void,
Notice of Default,
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts,
Off the books,
Office of Thrift Supervision,
Offering price,
Out-of-favor,
Over-the-Counter,
On-floor order,
On margin,
Or better,
Opinion of title,
On account,
On-the-spot loan,
Option price,
Options Prices Reporting Authority,
Out of the money,
Old age, survivors, and disability insurance,
On-balance volume,
On close,
On open,
On the opening,
Open repo,
Overnight repo,
Pooling of interests,
Profit and loss statement,
Pro forma,
Payment-in-kind security,
Premium over bond value,
Premium over conversion value,
Price Value of a Basis Point,
Payment for order flow,
P&L,
Provision for income taxes,
Price index,
Producer Price Index,
Productivity report,
Parity price,
Price limit,
Public offering price,
Pour-over will,
Power of Attorney,
Prioritization of debt,
Phone switching,
Price spread,
Prudent Expert Act,
Paid-in capital,
Paid-in surplus,
Private Investment in Public Equity,
Preservation of capital,
Point-and-figure chart,
Painting the tape,
Price range,
Price-weighted index,
Quarterly report,
Reports and Records,
Return of capital,
Return on Capital,
Return on Invested Capital,
Return on Total Assets,
Redemption price,
Registered security,
Residual security,
Restricted security,
Reading the tape,
Real-time trade reporting,
Regulation D,
Regulation G,
Regulation T,
Regulation U,
Round of funding,
Rules of Fair Practice,
Rate of exchange,
Reciprocal of European terms,
Retail Price Index,
Regulation A,
Reverse Take-Over,
Right of first refusal,
Right of rescission,
Right to Know,
Revolving line of credit,
Right of recourse,
Roll over,
Rule of 78,
Right of redemption,
Retirement Equity Act of 1984,
Return on Capital Employed,
ROC,
ROCE,
Rate of return,
Real rate of return,
Repo,
Reverse repo,
SEC filing,
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses,
SG&A,
Savings and Loan,
Sight letter of credit,
S&L,
SEC,
Securities and Exchange Commission,
Stamped security,
SEC fee,
Segregation of securities,
Sell the book,
Stop price,
Standard of living,
Settlement price,
Spot price,
Second-to-die insurance,
Summary annual report,
Subscription price,
Statute of Limitations,
Sale and leaseback,
Satisfaction of debt,
Security interest,
Security loan,
Senior security,
Staggered board of directors,
Switching,
Selling the spread,
Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees,
Social Security,
Social Security Tax,
Share price,
Split-adjusted price,
Security analysis,
Selling short against the box,
Shorting against the box,
S Corporation,
Short-term gain or loss,
Subchapter M,
Subchapter S Corporation,
Schedule C,
Securities Act of 1933,
Securities Acts Amendments of 1975,
Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Seek a market,
S&P phenomenon,
Stop and reverse,
T-Bill,
Term to maturity,
Treasury Inflation-Protected Security,
Trust-preferred security,
Take a position,
Trailing P/E,
Triple witching hour,
Tenancy by the entirety,
TED spread,
Truth in Lending,
Tenancy at will,
The Street,
Timing the market,
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997,
Tax Reform Act of 1986,
Tax Reform Act of 1993,
Take a bath,
Target price,
Term repo,
Triple witching day,
U.S. Government Agency Security,
U.S. Savings Bond,
U.S. Treasury,
U.S. Treasury Bill,
U.S. Treasury Bond,
U.S. Treasury Note,
U.S. Treasury Securities,
Uniform Securities Act,
Underlying security,
Unit of trade,
Unit of trading,
Williams Act,
Wage price spiral,
Witching hour,
Waiver of premium,
Widow-and-orphan stock,
W-2 Form,
W formation,
When, as, and if issued,
X or XD,
Year-over-year,
Year-To-Date,
Yield to call,
Yield to maturity,
Yield to worst,
Y shares