#wall-street
57 words tagged “wall-street”
Friendly buyer that swoops in to rescue a company from a hostile bidder.
A discount applied to an asset's value, or a forced loss on a position.
A high-pressure phone-bank operation cold-calling retail to dump dodgy stock.
The last hour of trading on options-expiry days, when prices go feral.
One hundredth of a percent — the unit finance uses when 'percent' is too clumsy.
Buying and selling the same security with no real change of ownership, just to fake activity.
Buy a big stake, threaten a takeover, then sell it back to the target at a premium.
A boring, safe, dividend-paying share thought fit for people who can't afford to lose.
Mature content — open to view.
Pit trading by shouting and hand signals.
Quarterly Friday when stock options, index options and index futures all expire together.
Initial Public Offering — a company's first sale of stock to the public.
The deep-dive investigation a buyer runs on a target before signing.
The discount taken off collateral value in a repo trade.
The tiered ring on an exchange floor where open-outcry traders work.
The bound presentation bankers use to pitch a deal or sell their services.
Selling a client a product that craters and ruins them.
Sell a stock at the close and buy it back at the open to bank a tax loss.
Bond traders' bluffing game played with the serial numbers on dollar bills.
Desk shorthand for the Magnificent Seven US tech mega-caps.
Options sellers who farm time decay instead of betting on direction.
A position a trader badly wants done, pushed onto sales to shift to clients.
A green trainee on the Salomon Brothers trading floor.
The option Greek for sensitivity to implied volatility.
Subscribing to an IPO just to flip the allocation on day one.
The senior banker whose Rolodex prints fees.
The seven mega-cap US tech stocks carrying the index.
Buy a security in massive size because the price is too good to pass up.
An out-of-nowhere headline that jolts the market mid-session.
Liar's Poker nickname for a relentlessly profane Salomon trader.
Try to buy an asset mid-plunge and hope you don't get sliced.
A broker over-trading a client's account just to harvest commissions.
Immediate-or-cancel — fill whatever you can right now, kill the rest.
The slide deck a bank uses to win a deal.
Managing Director, the top dealmaking rank at an investment bank.
A brief, deceptive price rebound inside a much bigger downtrend.
Board structure where only a slice of directors is up for election each year, making takeovers a slog.
Trading ahead of a client's order you know is about to move the price.
The collective US investment-banking and trading world.
Fill-or-kill — execute the whole order right now or cancel it instantly.