An auction rate security (ARS) typically refers to a debt instrument (corporate or municipal bonds) with a long-term nominal maturity for which the interest...

marketed auction rate securities as short-term investments. The settlement included a $456 million payment and the buyback of the securities, compensating...

2011, Raymond James announced an agreement to repurchase at par auction rate securities (ARS) sold to clients through its domestic broker/dealer subsidiaries...

They own many mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. In the U.S., mortgages are usually fixed rate, and can be prepaid early without cost, in contrast...

dutch auction is also able to maintain the stability of the item price and gives benefit to both auctioneers and bidders. Auction rate security Bid-to-cover...

include fixed interest and variable rate loans or debt instruments, however called, and other forms of security such as redeemable preference shares...

securities in auctions conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, after which they can be traded in secondary markets. Non-marketable securities include...

value. Auction rate security Collateralized debt obligation Float (finance) Inflation-indexed bond Structured note Equity-linked note Floating rate note...

more favorable issue price. Thus, par value is the nominal value of a security which is determined by the issuing company to be its minimum price. This...

highly safe, 28-day auction rate securities, but - without [the company's] authorization - invested the funds ... in a security called 'Mantoloking [ARSs]'"...

An online auction (also electronic auction, e-auction, virtual auction, or eAuction) is an auction held over the internet and accessed by internet connected...

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CLNs themselves are typically backed by very highly rated collateral, such as U.S. Treasury securities. The Italian dairy products giant, Parmalat, notoriously...

financing costs reduce the amount of paid in capital associated with that security. For U.S. federal income tax purposes, DFC are generally amortized over...

An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest...

the risk on mortgage-backed securities. A week earlier, Merrill Lynch had offered to buy back $12 billion in auction-rate debt and said it was surprised...

million rupees (US$883,960) each. On 13 April 2009, via a formal public auction process, a 31% stake in Satyam was purchased by Mahindra & Mahindra owned...

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interest rates and auction results for municipal auction rate securities (the first free source for this kind of information on the auction rate securities market[citation...

Single-price auctions are a pricing method in securities auctions that give all purchasers of an issue the same purchase price. They can be perceived as...

Zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) is a macroeconomic concept describing conditions with a very low nominal interest rate, such as those in contemporary...

alternative to auction rate securities. He is also considered an expert at auction rate securities, serving as an expert advisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

2008 in which Wachovia Securities agreed to repay over 40,000 investors who had nearly $9 billion frozen in auction-rate securities accounts. Carnahan also...

approximately $4.5 billion worth of auction rate securities. The firm was accused of misrepresenting auction rate securities in their sales and marketing. In...

came under criticism during 2008 for its involvement in the auction rate securities auction failures, during which assets held in Nuveen's closed-end funds...

sell bonds back to the issuer and may lend proceeds elsewhere at a higher rate. Bondholders are ready to pay for such protection by accepting a lower yield...

(approximately $51 billion in all) on behalf of investors who purchased auction rate securities from six different financial institutions. The SEC has been criticized...

August 2006, all 11 banks have been registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and all financial statements and other filings...

them is unclear. In any event, huge losses accrued in lower-rated mortgage-backed securities throughout 2008. In the second fiscal quarter, Lehman reported...

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