FEDERAL CALL
The requirement for a deposit amount which must be sufficient in order to comply with the Federal Reserve rules. This restriction is set by Regulation T of the Code of Federal Regulations. Currently the margin call is 50% for equities, and for short sales it is between 100% and 150% of the current market value of the security being sold short.
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Quintiles
A value of a set of data that is 20% of a given population. A range of data is divided into five equal parts; each is 1/5th or 20%. The first quart ...
Excess Margin Deposit
Funds deposited in a trading account above the required minimum amount to maintain a margin account. To get the total balance on the account is the ...
Pre-Funded Bond
Bonds issued by a government agency that buys U.S. government securities to pledge as collateral for the bond issue. Pre-funded bonds are issued by ...
Eurostrip
Sets of consecutive three-month futures contracts based on US dollar-denominated deposits in international banks. It is an interest rate derivative ...
Centre for European Economic Research
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