Month: July 2023

  • Uptick and plus tick (so also in German; more rarely uptick and uptick) EN

    In stock exchange parlance, a buy or sell transacted at a more favorable price than an immediately preceding transaction in the same security (an exchange transaction …

  • Under-utilization of capacities EN

    The production potential of an economy is partially idle. Whether monetary policy can change this situation is difficult to answer in general terms, especially since the …

  • Security EN

    In older financial terminology, often used for collateral in the sense of depositing an asset in order to increase the probability that a creditor of a …

  • Company, cooperative (co-operative business) EN

    The business operated by a cooperative (a cooperative: an autonomous association of persons united on their own accord to meet their mutual economic goals through jointly …

  • Value-at-risk (also generally used in German; often abbreviated VaR; more rarely also value at risk) EN

    Possible loss of a position or a portfolio - during a certain period (= risk horizon), which - with a previously defined probability (= confidence level) …

  • Underbidding EN

    In the variable rate tender procedure - as introduced in the Eurosystem since 2000 - the fact that the bids submitted by banks in aggregate fall …

  • Company report EN

    Under the German Prospectus Act, anyone wishing to list securities on the regulated market segment of the German stock exchange must submit a disclosure of all …

  • Variance EN

    In relation to the financial market, a statistical measure of the risk of a particular individual investment or portfolio. It is roughly calculated from the deviation …

  • Support payments (remittances) EN

    A term frequently used in statistics to refer to remittances (the sending of money chiefly by migrant workers to their families at a distance). Attention: The …

  • Value date (foreign currency; value; value date, availability date) EN

    Means of payment in foreign currency. - Value of the money of a country or currency community such as the euro area in relation to the …