Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• HOT ISSUES - Are stocks which trade at an immediate premium relative to their initial offering price on...
  
  
• HOT MONEY - An informal term used to describe funds provided by the most price-sensitive and credit qua...
  
  
• HOUSE - Firms that conduct business as broker-dealers in securities or in the investment banking field ...
  
  
• HOUSE ACCOUNT - A type of account at a brokerage firm that is given a high level of priority and is han...
  
  
• HOUSE AIR WAYBILL (AWB) - An air waybill issued by an air freight consolidator.
  
  
• HOUSE CALL - Notification by a brokerage house that a customer's margin account is below the minimum ma...
  
  
• HOUSE MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENT - The level of equity that brokerage firms require on a customer's margin...
  
  
• HOUSE OF ISSUE - An investment banking firm whose business it is to underwrite stock or bond issues and...
  
  
• HOUSE POOR - People who are short on cash because most of their money is tied up in their homes are "ho...
  
  
• HOUSE RULES - Internal rules of broker-dealer firm that govern the handling of its customers' accounts.