Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• FIRM QUOTE
  
  A firm quote is a bid or ask price for a round lot of a security (stocks sold in multiples of 100, for example) that a market maker will honor without further negotiation. For example, if the market maker posts an ask price of 42 12, an order to buy at that price will be filled from the market maker's inventory.
  
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