Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• INITIAL MARGIN REQUIREMENT - When buying securities on margin, the proportion of the total market value...
  
  
• INITIAL NOTE RATE - With regard to an adjustable rate mortgage, the note rate upon origination. This ra...
  
  
• INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING - An IPO is stock in a company that is being traded on an exchange for the firs...
  
  
• INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING (IPO) - An Initial Public Offering (IPO being the Stock Exchange and corporate ...
  
  
• INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING SPINNING - The practice of an investment bank setting aside portions of a corpo...
  
  
• INITIAL RATE - Some lenders offer initial ARM rates that are lower than the sum of the index and the ma...
  
  
• INITIAL RATE PERIOD - The period of time for which the "initial interest rate" is guaranteed on a Varia...
  
  
• INITIATE - to set going by taking the first step, e.g., initiate contract negotiations.
  
  
• INITIATE COVERAGE - (1) Firm is now followed by analysts at a particular securities house; (2) Indicati...
  
  
• INJUNCTION - A legal action whereby a court issues a writ that forbids a party defendant from doing som...