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Evening Up
Definition: Buying or selling to offset an existing market position.
Event Anomalies
Definition: Occurrences such as earnings surprises or stock splits that seem to present opportunity to generate abnormal returns for those trading on the news.
Event Driven
Definition: In the context of hedge funds, a style of management that combines many different types of hedge fund investing such as merger arbitrage, distressed securities and high yield investing, in conjunction with an important "event" that is supposed to unlock firm value (like a merger announcement, earnings announcement, or a regulator decision).
Event Risk
Definition: The risk that the ability of an issuer to make interest and principal payments will change because of rare, discontinuous, and very large, unanticipated changes in the market environment such as (1) a natural or industrial accident or some regulatory change or (2) a takeover, or corporate restructuring.
Event Study
Definition: A statistical study that examines how the release of information affects prices at a particular time.
Events Of Default
Definition: Contractually specified events that allow lenders to demand immediate repayment of a debt.
Evergreen
Definition: A contract that rolls over after each agreed (short-term) period until cancelled by one party.
Evergreen Credit
Definition: Revolving credit without maturity.
Evergreen Funding
Definition: A British term referring to the gradual injection of capital into a new or existing enterprise.
Ex Ante Return
Definition: The expected return or anticipation return of an asset or portfolio.
Ex Ante Value
Definition: The forecasted price or value.
Ex Dividend
Definition: See: Ex-dividend
Ex Post Return
Definition: Related: Holding-period return
Ex Works (EXW)
Definition: A transaction in which the seller's only responsibility is to make the ordered goods available to the buyer at the seller's premises. The buyer bears the cost and risk in transporting the goods from the seller's premises to destination. Since this includes pre- carriage and export clearance in the seller's country, EXW is not a very practical Incoterm for U.S. exports.
Ex-all
Definition: The sale of a security without the privileges associated with the security such as dividends, voting rights, or warrants.
Ex-dividend
Definition: This literally means "without dividend." The buyer of shares when they are quoted ex-dividend is not entitled to receive a declared dividend. It is the interval between the record date and the payment date during which the stock trades without its dividend-the buyer of a stock selling ex-dividend does not receive the recently declared dividend. Antithesis of cum dividend (with dividend).
Ex-dividend Date
Definition: The first day of trading when the buyer of a stock is no longer entitled to the most recently announced dividend payment ( i.e. the trade will settle the day after the record date, too late for the buyer to appear on the shareholder record and receive the dividend.) The date set by the NYSE (and generally followed on other U.S. exchanges) is currently two business days before the record date. A stock that has gone ex-dividend is denoted by an x in newspaper listings on that date.
Ex-legal
Definition: A municipal bond offered without a law firm's legal opinion. A majority of bonds are issued with legal opinions.
Ex-Pit
Definition: See: Transfer Trades
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