Terms beginning with O

• Obligations Assimilables Du Tresor
  French government bonds with a maturity of at least seven years at issue....(Read more)
• Occupational Pension Scheme
  A pension scheme generated by a company or organisation for the benefit of its employees. In contributory schemes both the employer and empl...(Read more)
• Occupational Pensions Board
  The Occupational Pensions Board is the renamed Office of the Registrar of Non-participating Employments (RONPE), set up in the wake of chang...(Read more)
• Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority
  The Authority set up under the Pensions Act 1995 to make occupational pensions more secure and closed in April 2005 when its responsibilitie...(Read more)
• Odd Lot
  In the US, the trading of securities at lots less than 100, that is, less than the normal trading unit....(Read more)
• OECD
  See Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development....(Read more)
• Ofex
  

  Ofex is the UK's independent public market, dedicated to smaller companies, and based on a quote-driven trading platform. Owned and opera...(Read more)

• Off Balance Sheet Financing
  Financing arranged from sources other than debt and equity offerings, such as joint ventures, R&D partnerships and operating leases....(Read more)
• Off The Run Issue
  Securities that are not Ð or are no longer Ð benchmark stocks, which tend to trade with wider spreads than benchmarks....(Read more)
• Offer
  In the stock market, an offer, or an ask, means that a seller is willing to sell a share or other financial instrument at a given price. It ...(Read more)
• Offer For Sale
  A public invitation by a sponsoring intermediary, such as bank or broker, to buy new or existing securities. It contrasts with an offer for ...(Read more)
• Offer Price
  Generally, the price at which securities are offered for sale, but more specifically, the price at which a new issue of shares is offered to...(Read more)
• Offer-only Warrant
  A warrant is offer-only if the holder is unable to sell it back to the issuer....(Read more)
• Office Of Thrift Supervision
  In the US, an agency of the US Treasury Department, established in 1989, with responsibility for overseeing the savings and loans industry....(Read more)
• Official List
  The daily record setting out the prices of all trades in securities conducted on the London Stock Exchange. A SEDOL code is allocated to eac...(Read more)