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• ELKS
  
  Equity Linked Securities (sm). Salomon Brothers Inc's proprietary Equity Linked Debt Security (q.v.). A debt obligation of Corporation A, equivalent to a buy-write on one share of Corporation B. The ELKS is like a PERCS (q.v.), except that the company that issues the stock issues the PERCS, and another company issues the ELKS. Salomon Brothers Inc issued the first ELKS in 1993.
  
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