Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• MARGIN REQUIREMENT (OPTIONS) - The amount of cash an uncovered (naked) option writer is required to dep...
  
  
• MARGIN SECURITY - A security that may be bought or sold in a margin account as defined in Regulation T.
  
  
• MARGIN STOCK - A term defined by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Regulations T and U. Any sto...
  
  
• MARGIN TRADING - Buying securities, in part, with borrowed money.
  
  
• MARGINAL - just barely adequate or within a lower limit.
  
  
• MARGINAL COST - a calculation showing the change in total cost as a result of a change in volume, e.g. ...
  
  
• MARGINAL EFFICIENCY OF CAPITAL - The percentage yield earned on an additional unit of capital.
  
  
• MARGINAL LAND - Land whose value is limited. The cost of making it capable of producing income is gener...
  
  
• MARGINAL PROFIT - the change in the total profit that results from the sale of an additional unit.
  
  
• MARGINAL RATE - The incremental rate or return realized by making just one change, adding a single addi...