Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• LONG COUPONS - (1) Bonds or notes with a long current maturity. (2) A bond on which one of the coupon p...
  
  
• LONG HEDGE - the purchase of futures contracts to compensate for a rise in the price of a commodity or ...
  
  
• LONG INDUSTRIALS - Are investment grade U.S. corporate bonds. Maturities exceed 10 years.
  
  
• LONG LEG - The part of an option spread in which an agreement to buy the underlying security is made.
  
  
• LONG MARKET VALUE - The market value of a security, excluding options, as of the close of the last busi...
  
  
• LONG POSITION - Having a long position when you own a stock or bond means you have the right to collect...
  
  
• LONG POSITION IN AN OPTION - Purchase of an options.
  
  
• LONG RUN - A period of time in which all costs are variable; longer than one year.
  
  
• LONG STRADDLE - Taking a long position in both a put and a call option.
  
  
• LONG TERM DEBT - all senior debt, including bonds, debentures, bank debt, mortgages, deferred portions ...