- Industry: Financial services
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An option contract that may be exercised at any time between the date of purchase and the expiration date. Most exchange-traded options are American-style.
Industry:Financial services
An option contract that may be exercised only during a specified period of time just prior to its expiration.
Industry:Financial services
An exchange is a centralised location where securities or commodities are traded. The exchanges represented here are the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and the NASDAQ National Market®.
Industry:Financial services
Percentage of the proceeds from the redeemed fund(s) which he/she would like invested into the new fund.
Industry:Financial services
Number of units to be redeemed out or sold of the fund.
Industry:Financial services
A shareholder service that allows shareholders to move their assets from one fund to another fund within the same mutual fund family, usually without any additional sales charge or fees. Fund groups vary in the specific parameters detailing when or how many times an investor may use the exchange privileges.
Industry:Financial services
If a stock is "ex-dividend", (without dividend) the buyer of the stock will not receive a dividend that has been declared for that quarter, but the seller will. The trade will be ex-dividend because the settlement date will be after the record date, which determines which holder is entitled to the dividend.
Industry:Financial services
The first day of trading when the seller, rather than the buyer, of a stock will be entitled to the most recently announced dividend payment. This date set by the NYSE (and generally followed on other U.S. exchanges) is currently two business days before the record date. A stock that has gone ex-dividend is marked with an x in newspaper listings on that date.
Industry:Financial services
The completion of a trade. Buying or selling shares is said to have executed an order.
Industry:Financial services
The date upon which your stock options become available to you for exercise.
Industry:Financial services
