Ordinary shares of various types of stocks are bought and sold in a central trading place, called a securities market. In the US there are several of such markets, collectively called The

An OVERTHECOUNTER SWAP involving the exchange of a floating INTEREST RATE for potential gains from the appreciation an EQUITY reference index (which may take the form of a single COMMON STOCK, a

Time-bound or share-bound assets or monies a person has invested, contrasted to debt capital. This equity is not returned to an investors in the normal course of business. The purchase, as an

Lessening the percentage of ownership of common stock that an investor has in a company when the company issues additional shares of common stock. Contrast to a stock split, which increases the

An EXCHANGETRADED DERIVATIVE or OVERTHECOUNTER DERIVATIVE with an UNDERLYING reference based on COMMON STOCKS, BASKETS, and market indexes. An equity derivative can be structured as an equity OPTION, equity FUTURE, equity forward,

A mutual fund holding at least 65 percent of its total investment equity in liquid assets paying the highest dividend yield. These equities are typically fairly inexpensive stocks. The risk is loss

The investing in a company by buying the company

The entity owner of shares or stock. More commonly known as a shareholder or stockholder.

A mutual fund whose goal is high return by income through either immediate dividend yield or projected future growth. This occurs by using most of the available investment capital to purchase common

An OVERTHECOUNTER SWAP involving the exchange of a floating INTEREST RATE for potential gains from the appreciation or depreciation of an EQUITY reference index (which may be a COMMON STOCK, a BASKET,

Commonly held evidence of ownership by a share or stock certificate, a document issued by the company to the share investor. Refer to debt instrument and financial instrument.

Partial or full ownership in a company by shares of stock, rather than a creditor’s interest from being owed money.

The worth of assets and money an entity invests (person, company, group) in another company or fund. Ownership is represented the number of shares the owning entity holds as investments over time.

A lender charges a lower than normal interest rate in exchange for some percentage of interest in the asset used as collateral for the loan.

A fixed income security, such as a bond, uses the rise and fall of another specific common stock to determine interest owed on the first security.

A security whose gain is based on another instrument, a sector index, or broader market index. This basis is not on any yield by interest rate. Often, such a linked security protects

A place for trading investment vehicles, giving companies sources of capital, as well as investments for another entity to share risks, invest, and raise personal worth. Known also as stock market.

The way investments in subsidiaries is tracked by a parent company. The profits and losses are posted on separate accounts for each subsidiary as a balance sheet. This begins from the time

Using the value of property, typically a home with an existing mortgage, to get an additional line of credit contracted as a second mortgage against the property. Known also as a home

A single dollar ratio, percentage, or value of an asset or investment instrument. For each dollar investment, this is how much value over or below that dollar currently exists. Refer to financial