margin
Definition 1
Banking: (1) Difference between the market value of a collateral and amount of the loan advanced against it. Also called haircut. (2) Percentage added to a market rate of interest, or subtracted from a market rate of deposit, to provide a return to the bank.
Definition 2
Commerce: Difference between the cost price and selling price of a product.
Definition 3
Commodity trading: Difference between the spot price and forward price quoted for a commodity.
Definition 4
Currency trading: Difference between the spot price and forward price quoted for a currency.
Definition 5
Futures trading: Security deposit that buyers and sellers must place with the clearing house to guaranty they will perform as agreed (to make or take the delivery) on or before the futures contract's expiration date.
Definition 6
Securities trading: Difference between the amount of loan advanced by a stockbroker to a speculator and the current value of the securities deposited by him or her with the stockbroker as collateral.
margin is in the Advertising, Marketing, & Sales, Banking, Commerce & Finance, Commodities & Precious Metals Trading, Currency Trading and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.
margin appears in the definitions of the following terms:
buying on margin,
interlineation,
defensive investment strategy,
balanced investment strategy,
margin of safety,
on margin,
haircut,
leader pricing,
introduction stage,
flush
and
margin appears in the other terms:
marginal pricing,
marginal social benefit,
profit margin,
marginal cost of funds,
marginal rate of technical substitution,
operating margin,
gross margin,
marginal rate of transformation,
margin buying,
marginal private benefit
and
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