Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• LONDON INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL FUTURES AND OPTIONS EXCHANGE (LIFFE) - A leading market for trading opti...
  
  
• LONDON METAL EXCHANGE (LME) - A market for trading base metals, where traded options contracts are avai...
  
  
• LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE - The London Stock Exchange is the UK's leading stock exchange and the most inter...
  
  
• LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE (LSE) - The U.K.'s six regional exchanges joined together in 1973 to form the sto...
  
  
• LONG - The position of an investor who owns, or commits to buy, a security in either the cash or future...
  
  
• LONG BOND - The long bond is the 30-year bond issued by the US Treasury. The yield, or what you earn, o...
  
  
• LONG BONDS - Bonds with a long current maturity. The "long bond" is the 30-year US Treasury bond.
  
  
• LONG COUPON - Sometimes bonds are issued with a bond date of greater than six months from the issue dat...
  
  
• 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 ...