INVESTMENT BANK - IB
A financial intermediary that specializes primarily in huge and complex financial transactions such as underwriting, serving as the middleman between a securities issuer and the investing public, facilitating mergers and other corporate reorganizations, and acting as a broker and/or financial adviser for institutional clients. Major investment banks include Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and UBS, among others. Some banks specialize in certain industry sectors while others have retail operations that cater small and individual customers.
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Robert C. Merton
American economist who won the 1997 Nobel Memorial prize in Economic Sciences, along with Myron Scholes, for developing the Black-Sholes model, whi ...
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Recommendation to purchase a given security once a security’s price surpasses a particular resistance level by putting a buy stop order at th ...
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Black Box Model
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Form 3903
A form issued by the IRS and used by taxpayers to deduct moving expenses related to taking a new job.
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