Buy is a term used to describe the purchase or acquisition of an item or service that's typically paid for via an exchange of money or another asset.

A buy-in is when an investor is forced to repurchase shares because the seller did not deliver securities in a timely fashion or did not deliver them at ...

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A buy stop order directs to an order in which a market buy order is placed on a security once it hits a pre-determined strike price.

The term “Buy Here, Pay Here (BHPH)” refers to auto dealerships in which the financing for the vehicles purchased is done in-house.

Term describes an asset, liability or security's time over which conditions of a contract will be carried out, and can also be a provision to a contract.

What shareholders own are shares issued by the corporation, and the corporation owns the assets held by a firm. If you own 33% of the shares of a company, it is ...

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