the act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity usually by governmental intervention (as by maintaining a purchasing fund to buy up surpluses or making loans to producers to enable them to store their products); specifically : price fixing by cartels or agreements compare TRUST

Finance In an efficient market the value of the sum of two cash flows is the sum of the values of the individual cash flows.

Finance Contracted date on which the foreign exchange is to be delivered or received.

Finance Special foreign exchange transaction in which delivery and payment are made on the same day as the contract, instead of the normal one or two business day lag.

Finance Special foreign exchange transaction in which delivery and payment are made on the next business day after the contract.

Finance Cost that varies directly with volume and is zero when production is zero.

Finance Gains or losses on open futures contracts calculated by marking the contracts to the market price at the end of each trading day.

Finance Early stage financing of young companies seeking to grow rapidly.

Finance Acquisition in which the acquired firm and the acquiring firm are at different steps in the production process.

Finance Measure of the amount by which an asset's price fluctuated over a given period.

Finance Time during which the SEC studies a firm's registration statement.

Finance Call option to buy a stated number of shares of stock at a specified price.

Finance Gains equals losses.

Finance A week or month order instructs the broker to fill the order by the end of the week or month or cancel the order.

Finance Average cost of capital on the firm's existing projects and activities.

Finance Measure of the level of interest rate risk calculated by weighting cash flows by the time to receipt and multiplying by the fraction of total present value represented by the cash flow at that time.