Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• UNDERLYING SECURITY
  
  For options, the security that is subject to purchase or sold upon exercise of an option contract. For example, IBM stock is the underlying security for IBM options. For Depository receipts, the class, series, and number of the foreign shares represented by the depository receipt.
  
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