Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RATIFICATION - Method of creating an agency relationship in which the principal accepts the conduct of ...
  
  
• RATIFIED SALES CONTRACT - A contract that shows both you and the seller of the house have agreed to you...
  
  
• RATING - in securities trading, a formal opinion given by an independent, professional service on the c...
  
  
• RATING AGENCIES - Independent firms engaged to rate the creditworthiness of securities for the benefit ...
  
  
• RATING AGENCY - Companies that rate the likelihood of a firm to default on its debt obligations.
  
  
• RATING SERVICE - A rating service, such as A.M. Best, Moody's Investors Service, or Standard & Poor's, ...
  
  
• RATINGS - Various alphabetical and numerical designations used by institutional investors, Wall Street ...
  
  
• RATIO - the relative size, expressed as the number of times one quantity is contained in another (for e...
  
  
• RATIO ANALYSIS - involves conversion of financial numbers for a firm into ratios. Ratio analysis allows...
  
  
• RATIO CALENDAR COMBINATION - A strategy consisting of a simultaneous position of a ratio calendar sprea...