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Third Party
Third Party What Is a Third Party? A third party is an individual or entity that is involved in a transaction but is not one of the principals and, thus, has a lesser interest in the transaction. An example of a third party would be the escrow company in a real estate transaction; the escrow party acts as a neutral age...
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Third World
Third World What Is the Third World? "Third World" is an outdated and derogatory phrase that has been used historically to describe a class of economically developing nations. It is part of a four-part segmentation that was used to describe the world’s economies by economic status. Third World falls behind First World ...
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Third Market
Third Market What Is the Third Market? A third market consists of trading conducted by non-exchange member broker-dealers and institutional investors of exchange-listed stocks. In other words, the third market involves exchange-listed securities that are being traded over-the-counter between broker-dealers and large in...
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Thirty-Year Treasury
Thirty-Year Treasury What Is Thirty-Year Treasury? A thirty-year treasury is a U.S. Treasury debt obligation that matures after 30 years. Key Takeaways Thirty-year treasury is a debt obligation backed by the U.S. Treasury that matures after 30 years.Thirty-year treasury bonds are among the world’s most widely followed...
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Thomas C. Schelling
Thomas C. Schelling Who Was Thomas C. Schelling? Thomas C. Schelling was an economist who won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, along with Robert J. Aumann, for his research on conflict and cooperation via game theory. His research has been used in conflict resolution and war avoidance. Many of his research i...
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Three Outside Up/Down
Three Outside Up/Down What Is a Three Outside Up/Down? The three outside up and three outside down describe a pair of three-candle reversal patterns that appear on candlestick charts. In either, a dark candlestick is followed by two white ones, or vice-versa. Key Takeaways Three outside up/down are patterns of three c...
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Three Stars in the South
Three Stars in the South What Is the Three Stars in the South Candlestick Pattern? The three stars in the south is a three-candle bullish reversal pattern that appears on candlestick charts. It may appear after a decline, and it signals that the bearishness is fading. The pattern is very rare. Key Takeaways The three ...
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Thrift Institutions Advisory Council
Thrift Institutions Advisory Council What Is the Thrift Institutions Advisory Council? The Thrift Institutions Advisory Council (TIAC) provided advice and professional opinions to the Federal Reserve regarding the regulation of thrift institutions, primarily mutual savings banks, but also credit unions and savings and ...
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Thrift Bank
Thrift Bank What Is a Thrift Bank? A thrift bank–also just called a thrift–is a type of financial institution that specializes in offering savings accounts and originating home mortgages for consumers. Thrift banks are also sometimes referred to as Savings and Loan Associations (S&Ls). Thrift banks differ from larger c...
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Throwback Rule Definition
Throwback Rule Definition What Is the Throwback Rule? The "throwback rule" is a statute that states can adopt and use to ensure corporations pay their state taxes on 100% of their profits. Every state that levies a corporate income tax must determine, for each company doing business within its borders, how much of the ...
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Throwback
Throwback What is a Throwback? A throwback, in technical analysis, is when the price retraces toward the breakout point after moving through a resistance level. A resistance level is where the price has stalled or had trouble moving through in the past. When the price moves through that level it is called a breakout. N...
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Thrusting Line
Thrusting Line What Is a Thrusting Line? Stock traders are constantly on the watch for patterns that can be interpreted as an indication of the direction a stock they are watching will take next. The thrusting line is one such pattern. The thrusting line is actually an aspect of a two-candlestick pattern. The candlesti...
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Thunderbird School of Global Management
Thunderbird School of Global Management What Is the Thunderbird School of Global Management? The Thunderbird School of Global Management is a global management school that is part of the Arizona State University System. Formerly known as the American Institute for Foreign Trade, the school operated as a privately-owned...
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Teachers, Insurance, and Annuity Association (TIAA)
Teachers, Insurance, and Annuity Association (TIAA) What Is TIAA? The Teachers, Insurance, and Annuity Association (TIAA) is a financial organization that provides investment and insurance services for those working in education, medicine, culture, and research. TIAA has a history that dates back to the late Andrew Car...
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Tick
Tick What Is a Tick? A tick is a measure of the minimum upward or downward movement in the price of a security. A tick can also refer to the change in the price of a security from one trade to the next trade. Since 2001 and the advent of decimalization, the minimum tick size for stocks trading above $1 is one cent. Key...
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Ticker Tape
Ticker Tape What Is Ticker Tape? Ticker tape refers to the ribbon of paper or electronic representation of price quotes that appear in a linear fashion, providing market information to investors. Ticker tape first appeared as part of 19th-century ticker devices that printed stock symbols and numeric data to convey info...
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Tied Selling
Tied Selling What Is Tied Selling? Tied selling is the illegal practice of a company providing a product or service on the condition that a customer purchases some other product or service. It is frequently used in reference to banks and is sometimes referred to as coercive tied selling. Tied selling is also associated...
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Tier 1 Common Capital Ratio Definition
Tier 1 Common Capital Ratio Definition What Is the Tier 1 Common Capital Ratio? Tier 1 common capital ratio is a measurement of a bank's core equity capital, compared with its total risk-weighted assets, and signifies a bank's financial strength. The Tier 1 common capital ratio is utilized by regulators and investors b...
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Tier 2 Spill
Tier 2 Spill What Is a Tier 2 Spill? A Tier 2 spill is one of the three levels of oil spills as categorized by the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA). Key Takeaways A Tier 2 spill is one of the three levels of oil spills as categorized by the International Petroleum Ind...
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Tiered-Rate Account
Tiered-Rate Account What Is a Tiered-Rate Account? A tiered-rate bank account is a checking or savings account that pays different rates of interest depending on the amount of funds held in the account. Generally, tiered-rate bank accounts will offer higher rates of interest for larger account sizes, in order to encour...
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Tiger Cub Economies
Tiger Cub Economies What Are Tiger Cub Economies? Tiger Cub Economies refer to developing countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. 1:26 Tiger Cub Economies Understanding Tiger Cub Economies The term "Tiger Cub" was coined to reflect the hope that these natio...
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Treasury Investment Growth Receipts (TIGRs)
Treasury Investment Growth Receipts (TIGRs) What Are Treasury Investment Growth Receipts (TIGRs)? Treasury Investment Growth Receipts (TIGRs), issued from 1982 until 1986, were zero-coupon bonds based on U.S. Treasury bonds held by Merrill Lynch. Key Takeaways Treasury Investment Growth Receipts (TIGRs) were zero-coup...
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Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
Truth in Lending Act (TILA) What Is the Truth in Lending Act (TILA)? The Truth in Lending Act (TILA) is a federal law enacted in 1968 to help protect consumers in their dealings with lenders and creditors. The TILA was implemented by the Federal Reserve Board through a series of regulations. Some of the most important ...
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Time and Sales
Time and Sales What Are Time and Sales? Time and sales, or T&S, show volume, price, direction, date, and time data for each trade that is executed on an exchange. Time and sales information is often provided as a real-time data feed of trade orders for a security. Key Takeaways Time and sales log the time-stamped tra...
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Time Arbitrage
Time Arbitrage What Is Time Arbitrage? Time arbitrage refers to an opportunity created when a stock misses its mark and is sold based on a short-term outlook with little change in the long-term prospects of the company. This dip in stock price occurs when a company fails to meet earnings estimates by analysts or its gu...
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Time Banking
Time Banking What Is Time Banking? Time banking is a system of bartering various services for one another using labor-time as a unit of account which was developed by various socialist thinkers based on the labor theory of value. Labor-time units can be credited to a person’s account in the time bank and redeemed for s...
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Time-Sharing
Time-Sharing What Is Time-Sharing? Time-sharing is a form of fractional ownership, where buyers purchase the right to occupy a unit of real estate over specified periods. For example, purchasing one week of a timeshare means the buyer owns 1/52 of the unit. Buying one month equates to one-twelfth ownership. Time-sharin...
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Time-Barred Debt
Time-Barred Debt What Is Time-Barred Debt? Time-barred debt is money a consumer borrowed and didn’t repay but which is no longer legally collectable because a certain number of years have passed. Time-barred debt is also known as debt that is beyond the statute of limitations. Key Takeaways Time-barred debt is typical...
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Time Decay
Time Decay What Is Time Decay? Time decay is a measure of the rate of decline in the value of an options contract due to the passage of time. Time decay accelerates as an option's time to expiration draws closer since there's less time to realize a profit from the trade. Time decay is also called theta and is known as ...
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Timeliness
Timeliness What Is Timeliness? Timeliness is a stock analysis rating system that ranks stocks according to their predicted price performance. The Value Line research analysis system is the most popular index, and timeliness is arguably the single most important component of their report. The other components in Valueli...
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Time Value of Money (TVM)
Time Value of Money (TVM) What Is the Time Value of Money (TVM)? The time value of money (TVM) is the concept that money you have now is worth more than the identical sum in the future due to its potential earning capacity. This core principle of finance holds that provided money can earn interest, any amount of money ...
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Timing Risk
Timing Risk What Is Timing Risk? Timing risk is the speculation that an investor enters into when trying to buy or sell a stock based on future price predictions. Timing risk explains the potential for missing out on beneficial movements in price due to an error in timing. This could cause harm to the value of an inves...
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Tip Income
Tip Income DEFINITION of Tip Income Many providers of services—waiters, hair stylists, taxi drivers and hotel workers—rely heavily on tip income because those types of jobs typically pay minimum wage. BREAKING DOWN Tip Income Whether someone leaves money, a gift card, movie passes, etc., tip income is considered income...
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TIPS Spread
TIPS Spread What Is TIPS Spread? TIPS spread is the difference in the yields between U.S. treasury bonds and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) and is a useful measure of the market’s expectation of future Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation. Key Takeaways TIPS spread is the difference in the yields betw...
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tit-for-tat.asp
Tit for Tat
Tit for Tat What Is Tit for Tat? Tit for tat is a game-theory strategy subject to a payoff matrix like that of a prisoner's dilemma. Tit for tat was introduced by Anatol Rapoport, who developed a strategy in which each participant in an iterated prisoner's dilemma follows a course of action consistent with his opponent...
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Title Binder
Title Binder What Is a Title Binder? A title binder is a temporary form of real estate insurance coverage related to the transfer of ownership. A title binder is typically used to protect both the seller and buyer of a real estate property during the transitional phase of a sale when the seller's and buyer's home insur...
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Title
Title What Is a Title? A title is a document that shows legal ownership to a property or asset. A title can represent ownership of a real asset such as a car or an intangible property or assets such as a trademark. A title might show ownership of property rights of an individual or business, which is the ownership of r...
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Title Insurance
Title Insurance What Is Title Insurance? Title insurance is a form of indemnity insurance that protects lenders and homebuyers from financial loss sustained from defects in a title to a property. The most common type of title insurance is lender's title insurance, which the borrower purchases to protect the lender. The...
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TMX Group
TMX Group What Is the TMX Group? The TMX Group is a large Toronto-based financial services company that operates the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), TSX Venture Exchange, Montreal Exchange, and TSX Alpha Exchange. The group operates exchanges for derivatives, equity, and fixed income trades through trading, clearing, dep...
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Tobacco Tax/Cigarette Tax
Tobacco Tax/Cigarette Tax What Is a Tobacco Tax/Cigarette Tax? A tobacco or cigarette tax is a tax imposed on all tobacco products by various levels of government, often with the alleged goal of reducing tobacco use or at least generating revenues earmarked to fund related healthcare programs. The terms "Tobacco Tax" a...
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Tobin Tax
Tobin Tax What Is the Tobin Tax? The Tobin tax is a tax on spot currency conversions that was originally proposed with the intention of penalizing short-term currency speculation. Rather than a consumption tax paid by consumers, the Tobin tax was meant to apply to financial sector participants as a means of controlling...
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Today's High
Today's High What Is Today's High? Today's high refers to a security's intraday high trading price. Today's high is the highest price at which a stock traded during the course of the trading day. Today's high is typically higher than the closing or opening price. More often than not this is higher than the closing pric...
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Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM)
Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) What Is the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM)? The term Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) refers to a commodities futures exchange located in Tokyo. The exchange was founded in 1984 as a result of the merger between the Tokyo Textile Exchange, the Tokyo Rubber Exchange, and the Tokyo Gold...
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Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)
Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) What Is the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)? The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is the largest stock exchange in Japan, headquartered in its capital city of Tokyo. The Tokyo Stock Exchange was established on May 15, 1878. As of June 2020, the exchange had over 3,700 listed companies, with a combined m...
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Toll Revenue Bond
Toll Revenue Bond What Is a Toll Revenue Bond? A toll revenue bond is a type of municipal bond whose principal and coupon are repaid from the toll revenues collected from the public project that was built by the funds generated by that issue. Key Takeaways Toll revenue bonds are municipal bonds that use toll revenues...
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Tombstone
Tombstone What Is a Tombstone? A tombstone is a written advertisement of a public offering placed by investment bankers who are underwriting the issue. It gives basic details about the issue and lists each of the underwriting groups involved in the deal. The tombstone provides investors with some general information an...
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Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail What Is Too Big to Fail? "Too big to fail" describes a business or business sector deemed to be so deeply ingrained in a financial system or economy that its failure would be disastrous to the economy. Therefore, the government will consider bailing out the business or even an entire sector—such as Wall...
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Top Hat Plan
Top Hat Plan What Is a Top Hat Plan? A top hat plan is a type of employer-sponsored plan that is unfunded. The design of the plan is to provide deferred compensation to the eligible employee group. However, participants in a top hat plan are typically high-ranking executives and directors. How a Top Hat Plan Works To...
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Topix Core 30 Index
Topix Core 30 Index What Is the Topix Core 30 Index? The Topix Core 30 Index is a market index composed of 30 of the largest companies out of the stocks listed on the First Section of Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange, or Topix. The Topix Core 30 is one of several different Topix indexes. The Topix Core 30 Index is meant to...
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Tokyo Price Index (TOPIX)
Tokyo Price Index (TOPIX) What Is the Tokyo Price Index (TOPIX)? The Tokyo Price Index—commonly referred to as TOPIX—is a metric for stock prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). TOPIX is a capitalization-weighted index that lists all firms in the "first section" of the TSE, a section that organizes all large firms o...
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Top Line
Top Line What Is the Top Line? The top line is a reference to gross figures reported by a company, such as sales or revenue. It is called the top line because it is displayed at the very top of a company's income statement, and is reserved for the reporting of gross sales or revenue. A company that increases its revenu...
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Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) What is the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)? The term Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) refers to a Canadian stock exchange located in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1861, the TSX is Canada's premier stock exchange with more than 1,500 listed companies, including those from the energy, mining, techno...
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Tort Law
Tort Law What Is Tort Law? Tort law is the area of the law that covers most civil suits. Generally, every claim that arises in civil court, with the exception of contractual disputes, falls under tort law. The concept of this area of law is to redress a wrong done to a person and provide relief from the wrongful acts o...
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Tortfeasor
Tortfeasor What Is a Tortfeasor? A tortfeasor is an individual or entity that has been found to have committed a civil offense that injures another party. Such disputes are resolved in the branch of the justice system that is known as tort law. The objective of tort law is to provide a remedy for damage suffered by one...
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Total Annual Loan Cost (TALC)
Total Annual Loan Cost (TALC) What Is Total Annual Loan Cost (TALC)? Total annual loan cost (TALC) is the projected cost that a reverse mortgage holder should expect to pay each year over the life of the loan. The total annual loan cost is based on the charges associated with the reverse mortgage, which include princip...
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Total Stock Fund
Total Stock Fund What Is a Total Stock Fund? A total stock fund is a mutual fund or exchange traded fund that holds every stock in a selected market. A total stock fund seeks to replicate the broad market by holding the stock of every security that trades on a certain exchange, invests in a certain country, or passes b...
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Total Cost of Ownership – TCO
Total Cost of Ownership – TCO What Is the Total Cost of Ownership? The total cost of ownership (TCO) is the purchase price of an asset plus the costs of operation. Assessing the total cost of ownership represents taking a bigger picture look at what the product is and what its value is over time. When choosing among al...
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Total Debt Service (TDS) Ratio
Total Debt Service (TDS) Ratio What Is the Total Debt Service (TDS) Ratio? The term total debt service (TDS) ratio refers to a debt service measurement that financial lenders use when determining the proportion of gross income that is already spent on housing-related and other similar payments. Lenders consider each po...
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Total Utility
Total Utility What Is Total Utility? Total utility is the aggregate summation of satisfaction or fulfillment that a consumer receives through the consumption of goods or services. Understanding Total Utility In economics, utility refers to the satisfaction gained from consuming a good or service. Total utility is usual...
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Touchline
Touchline What Is a Touchline? The touchline is the highest price that a buyer of a particular security is willing to bid and the lowest price at which a seller is willing to offer (or sell) at any given time in the trading day. Therefore, the touchline is the spread as represented by the bid and ask price of a securit...
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T+1 (T+2,T+3)
T+1 (T+2,T+3) What is T+1 (T+2,T+3)? T+1 (T+2, T+3) abbreviations refer to the settlement date of security transactions. The T stands for transaction date, which is the day the transaction takes place. The numbers 1, 2 or 3 denote how many days after the transaction date the settlement or the transfer of money and secu...
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Trade Act Of 1974
Trade Act Of 1974 What Is the Trade Act Of 1974? The Trade Act of 1974 is a piece of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress to expand American participation in international trade and reduce trade disputes. The enactment of the law happened on January 3, 1975. The Act provided the authority to reduce or eliminate trad...
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Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) What Does Trade Adjustment Assistance Mean? Trade adjustment assistance (TAA) offers job training, relocation allowances, income support and help with healthcare premiums and related benefits to workers in the U.S. who lost jobs due to the effects of increased imports. The government p...
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Trade Credit
Trade Credit What Is a Trade Credit? A trade credit is a business-to-business (B2B) agreement in which a customer can purchase goods on account without paying cash up front, paying the supplier at a later scheduled date. Usually businesses that operate with trade credits will give buyers 30, 60, or 90 days to pay, with...
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Trade Liberalization
Trade Liberalization What Is Trade Liberalization? Trade liberalization is the removal or reduction of restrictions or barriers on the free exchange of goods between nations. These barriers include tariffs, such as duties and surcharges, and nontariff barriers, such as licensing rules and quotas. Economists often view ...
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Trade Line
Trade Line What Is a Trade Line? A trade line is a record of activity for any type of credit extended to a borrower and reported to a credit reporting agency. A trade line is established on a borrower’s credit report when a borrower is approved for credit. The trade line records all of the activity associated with an a...
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Trade Secret
Trade Secret What Is a Trade Secret? A trade secret is any practice or process of a company that is generally not known outside of the company. Information considered a trade secret gives the company a competitive advantage over its competitors and is often a product of internal research and development. To be legally ...
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Trade-Weighted Dollar
Trade-Weighted Dollar What is the Trade-Weighted Dollar? The trade-weighted dollar is an index created by the FED to measure the value of the USD, based on its competitiveness versus trading partners. Key Takeaways The trade-weighted dollar is an index created by the FED to measure the value of the USD, based on its c...
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Trade Date
Trade Date What Is the Trade Date? The trade date is the month, day, and year that an order is executed in the market. The trade date is therefore when an order to purchase, sell, or otherwise transact in a security is performed. A trade date is determined for all types of investment security transactions in the market...
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Trademark
Trademark What Is a Trademark? The term trademark refers to a recognizable insignia, phrase, word, or symbol that denotes a specific product and legally differentiates it from all other products of its kind. A trademark exclusively identifies a product as belonging to a specific company and recognizes the company's own...
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What Is a Trader?
What Is a Trader? What Is a Trader? A trader is an individual who engages in the buying and selling of financial assets in any financial market, either for himself or on behalf of another person or institution. The main difference between a trader and an investor is the duration for which the person holds the asset. In...
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Trading Assets
Trading Assets What Are Trading Assets? Trading assets are a collection of securities held by a firm for the purpose of reselling for a profit. They are recorded as a separate account from the investment portfolio and may include U.S. Treasury securities, mortgage-backed securities, foreign exchange rate contracts, and...
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Trading House
Trading House What Is a Trading House? A trading house is a business that specializes in facilitating transactions between a home country and foreign countries. A trading house is an exporter, importer and also a trader that purchases and sells products for other businesses. Trading houses provide a service for busines...
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Trading Platform
Trading Platform What Is a Trading Platform? A trading platform is software used for trading: opening, closing, and managing market positions through a financial intermediary such as an online broker. Online trading platforms are frequently offered by brokers either for free or at a discount rate in exchange for mainta...
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Trading Software
Trading Software What Is Trading Software? Trading software facilitates the trading and analysis of financial products, such as stocks, options, futures, or currencies. Often times, brokerage firms provide their clients with trading software to place trades and manage their accounts. The software may be downloadable an...
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Trading Effect
Trading Effect What Is the Trading Effect? The trading effect measures a portfolio manager's effectiveness by comparing their portfolio returns to that of a chosen benchmark. Key Takeaways The trading effect measures a portfolio manager's effectiveness by comparing their portfolio returns to that of a chosen benchmar...
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Trading Floor
Trading Floor What is a Trading Floor? Trading floor refers to an area where trading activities in financial instruments, such as equities, fixed income, futures etc., takes place. Trading floors sit in the buildings of various exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)....
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Trading Range
Trading Range What is a Trading Range? A trading range occurs when a security trades between consistent high and low prices for a period of time. The top of a security’s trading range often provides price resistance, while the bottom of the trading range typically offers price support. Key Takeaways A trading range o...
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Traditional Theory of Capital Structure
Traditional Theory of Capital Structure What Is the Traditional Theory of Capital Structure? The traditional theory of capital structure states that when the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is minimized, and the market value of assets is maximized, an optimal structure of capital exists. This is achieved by uti...
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Traditional Whole Life Policy
Traditional Whole Life Policy What Is a Traditional Whole Life Policy? A traditional whole life policy is a type of life insurance contract that provides for insurance coverage of the contract holder for their entire life. Unlike term life insurance, which covers the contract holder until a specified age limit, a tradi...
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Trailer Fee
Trailer Fee What Is a Trailer Fee? A trailer fee is a fee that a mutual fund manager pays to a salesperson who sells the fund to investors. The trailer fee is paid to the salesperson for providing the investor with ongoing investment advice and services. This fee will be paid annually to the advisor for as long as the ...
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Trailing Stop Definition and Uses
Trailing Stop Definition and Uses What Is a Trailing Stop? A trailing stop is a modification of a typical stop order that can be set at a defined percentage or dollar amount away from a security's current market price. For a long position, an investor places a trailing stop loss below the current market price. For a sh...
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Transaction Authentication Number (TAN)
Transaction Authentication Number (TAN) What is a Transaction Authentication Number (TAN) A transaction authentication number is a one-time code used in the processing of online transactions. A transaction authorization number (TAN) represents an additional layer of security beyond a password to securely log into an ac...
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Transaction Date
Transaction Date What Is a Transaction Date? A transaction date is a date upon which a trade takes place for a security or other financial instrument. The transaction date represents the time at which ownership officially transfers. In banking, the date a transaction appears in the account is also referred to as the tr...
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Transaction Exposure
Transaction Exposure What Is Transaction Exposure? Transaction exposure (or translation exposure) is the level of uncertainty businesses involved in international trade face. Specifically, it is the risk that currency exchange rates will fluctuate after a firm has already undertaken a financial obligation. A high level...
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Transactor
Transactor What Is a Transactor? A transactor is a consumer who pays their credit card balance in full and on time every month. Transactors do not carry a balance from month to month; they always pay their credit card bills in full by the due date. Transactors do not pay interest or late fees. The only way credit card ...
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Transfer of Physical Assets (TPA)
Transfer of Physical Assets (TPA) What Is a Transfer of Physical Assets (TPA)? A transfer of physical assets (TPA) is a type of property sale that requires the assumption of a loan sponsored by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which oversees subsidized and public housing in the U.S. ...
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Transfer Pricing
Transfer Pricing What Is Transfer Pricing? Transfer pricing is an accounting practice that represents the price that one division in a company charges another division for goods and services provided. Transfer pricing allows for the establishment of prices for the goods and services exchanged between a subsidiary, an a...
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Transfer Risk
Transfer Risk What Is Transfer Risk? Transfer risk is defined as the threat that a local currency can't be converted into another nation's currency due to changes in nominal value or because of specific regulatory or exchange restrictions. Transfer risk, also known as conversion risk, may arise when a currency is not w...
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Transferable Points Programs
Transferable Points Programs What are Transferable Points Programs Transferable points programs allow customers to earn credit card points when using certain credit cards, and those points can be transferred to any of their participating programs. So instead of just having points with one airline or hotel, you can tran...
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Transfer Agent
Transfer Agent What Is a Transfer Agent? A transfer agent is a trust company, bank, or similar institution assigned by a corporation for the purposes of maintaining an investor's financial records and tracking each investor's account balance. The transfer agent records transactions, cancels and issues certificates, pro...
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Transfer on Death (TOD)
Transfer on Death (TOD) What Is Transfer on Death? The transfer on death designation lets beneficiaries receive assets at the time of the person's death without going through probate. This designation also lets the account holder or security owner specify the percentage of assets each designated beneficiary receives, w...
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Transferor
Transferor What Is a Transferor? When two parties agree to a transfer, one party if known at the transferor, and one is known as the transferee. The transferor is the party making a transfer to another party as part of a legal arrangement. Terms and conditions accompany the transfer to assure both sides fulfill their o...
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What Is a Transfer Payment?
What Is a Transfer Payment? What Is a Transfer Payment? A transfer payment is a one-way payment to a person or organization which has given or exchanged no goods or services for it. This contrasts with a simple "payment," which in economics refers to a transfer of money in exchange for a product or service. Generally, ...
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Transit Item
Transit Item What Is a Transit Item? A transit item is any check or draft that is issued by an institution other than the bank where it was initially deposited. Transit items are separated from internal transactions involving checks that were written by a bank's own customers. Transit items are submitted to the drawee'...
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Translation Risk
Translation Risk What Is Translation Risk? Translation risk is the exchange rate risk associated with companies that deal in foreign currencies and list foreign assets on their balance sheets. Companies that own assets in foreign countries, such as plant and equipment, must convert the value of those assets from the fo...
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Transparency
Transparency What Is Transparency? Although the term transparency is not a financial term or metric per se, it has become increasingly important to consumers and investors over the last several years. Transparency is the extent to which investors have ready access to required financial information about a company, such...
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Transportation and Storage Costs
Transportation and Storage Costs Transportation and Storage Costs: An Overview Through 2017, American taxpayers were allowed to deduct transportation and storage costs when relocating for a job. The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 eliminated this deduction, except for active-duty military personnel. To take the deduction,...
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Transportation Bond
Transportation Bond What Is a Transportation Bond? A transportation bond is a fixed-income security issued by a municipality, state government, or special regional district to fund infrastructure needs related to public transportation. Key Takeaways Transportation bonds are issued by municipal, state, regional, or fe...
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Transportation Expenses
Transportation Expenses What Are Transportation Expenses? The term transportation expense refers to specific costs incurred by an employee or self-employed taxpayer who travels for business purposes. Transportation expenses are a subset of travel expenses, which include all of the costs associated with business travel ...