Equity is a term with several meanings, both in the law and in finance. In another part of this issue...

The language of corporate mergers and acquisitions is filled with fairytale imagery which is used to describe various players in...

Odd lot is a securities trade made for less than the normal trading unit, (normally 100 shares of stock or...

Hung up is the expression used to describe the situation of an investor whose securities have dropped in value below...

Hedging is a strategy used to limit the risks of an investment. Investors often try to hedge against inflation by...

The term nil paid (alternatively, “nil-paid”) denotes rights that are tradeable but that were not originally paid for by the...

In commercial transactions, one worry common to both buyers and sellers is the unexpected costs that may arise after closing....

The so-called Revlon rule is a legal precedent derived from a case involving the sale of Revlon, Inc. (Revlon, Inc....

Hammering the market is the intense sale of stocks by those who believe that prices are inflated. Speculators who suspect...

Arbitrage denotes a transaction yielding risk-free profit, usually by simultaneously buying and selling the same asset on two different markets...