Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• STANDARD VARIABLE RATE - The rate which lenders apply to their 'premium' home loan product. Carries fea...
  
  
• STANDARDIZED NORMAL DISTRIBUTION - A normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1...
  
  
• STANDARDIZED UNANTICIPATED EARNINGS - (SUE) A company's average earnings surprise is compared with anal...
  
  
• STANDARDIZED VALUE - Also called the normal deviate, the distance of one data point from the mean, divi...
  
  
• STANDBY AGREEMENT - In a rights issue, agreement that the underwriter will purchase any stock not purch...
  
  
• STANDBY ARRANGEMENT - A measure taken to ensure the complete success of a rights offering in which an i...
  
  
• STANDBY COMMITMENT - A commitment to purchase a loan or loans with specified terms, both parties unders...
  
  
• STANDBY CONTRACT - An option to sell a specified amount of mortgages or mortgage-backed securities by o...
  
  
• STANDBY FEE - Amount paid to an underwriter who agrees to purchase any stock that is not purchased by p...
  
  
• STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT - a guaranty issued by a Federal Home Loan Bank on behalf of a member thrift i...