Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• FIRE SALE - Refers to the rapid disposition of positions. This often occurs at less than fair value ver...
  
  
• FIRE WALL - a wall constructed so as to stop the spread of fire in a building.
  
  
• FIREWALL - The legal barrier between banking and broker/dealer operations within a financial institutio...
  
  
• FIRM - Refers to an order to buy or sell that can be executed without confirmation for some fixed perio...
  
  
• FIRM AND BINDING - Description of a legal contract once all conditions have been removed. It is now leg...
  
  
• FIRM ANOMALIES - Trading strategies that generate abnormal returns based on firm-specific characteristi...
  
  
• FIRM COMMITMENT - An agreement with an unrelated party that is binding on both parties and that is usua...
  
  
• FIRM COMMITMENT UNDERWRITING - A type of underwriting whereby the underwriter agrees to purchase the en...
  
  
• FIRM ENERGY - The highest quality sales of electric transmission service offered to customers under a f...
  
  
• FIRM MARKET - In the context of general equities, prices at which a security can actually be bought or ...