Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• FIRM OFFER - An offer to purchase delivered to the potential Vendor by a potential Purchaser who will n...
  
  
• FIRM ORDER - In the context of general equities, (1) order to buy or sell for the proprietary account o...
  
  
• FIRM PRICE - An indication in a real estate advertisement that the price asked for the property is not ...
  
  
• FIRM QUOTE - A firm quote is a bid or ask price for a round lot of a security (stocks sold in multiples...
  
  
• FIRM SERVICE - Utility service which assumes no interruption except if residential customers’ supply is...
  
  
• FIRM SPECIFIC RISK - Uncertainty in returns due to factors specific to the company. See diversifiable r...
  
  
• FIRM'S NET VALUE OF DEBT - Total firm value minus total firm debt.
  
  
• FIRM-SPECIFIC NEWS - News that affects only a specific firm. Market. news by contrast affects many firm...
  
  
• FIRM-SPECIFIC RISK - See: Diversifiable risk or unsystematic risk
  
  
• FIRREA - Is the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989.