Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• COUNTERMOVE - A price bar showing movement opposite to the direction of the prior time period; a retrac...
  
  
• COUNTEROFFER - A new offer made in response to an offer received. It has the effect of rejecting the or...
  
  
• COUNTERPART ITEMS - In the balance of payments, counterpart items are analogous to unrequited transfers...
  
  
• COUNTERPARTIES - The parties on either side of an interest rate swap or a currency, equity or commodity...
  
  
• COUNTERPARTY - A term used to identify the "other" party in a two-party transaction. For example, the c...
  
  
• COUNTERPARTY RISK - The risk that a counterparty will default (fail to perform) on its obligation under...
  
  
• COUNTERPURCHASE - Exchange of goods between two parties under two distinct contracts expressed in monet...
  
  
• COUNTERSIGNATURE - an additional signature attesting to the authenticity of the first signature or the ...
  
  
• COUNTERSIGNED - Additional signature or signatures to guarantee the validity of a document.
  
  
• COUNTERTRADE - Generic term for barter and other forms of trade that involve the international sale of ...