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Old-Age And Survivors Insurance Trust Fund

What is 'Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund' One of the two trust funds managed by the Social Security Administration, the...

Office Of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC)

What is 'Office Of Foreign Asset Control - OFAC' A department of the U.S. Treasury that enforces economic and trade sanctions against...

Off-The-Run Treasury Yield Curve

What is 'Off-The-Run Treasury Yield Curve' The U.S. Treasury yield curve derived using off-the-run treasuries. Off-the-run treasuries refer to U.S. government bonds...

Odd-Days Interest

What is 'Odd-Days Interest' Interest that is earned from a mortgage or other loan with closed-end installments that contain a nonstandard payment...

Manipulation

What is 'Manipulation' Manipulation is the act of artificially inflating or deflating the price of a security. In most cases, manipulation is...

Main Street

What does 'Main Street' mean Main street is a colloquial term used to refer to individual investors, employees and the overall economy....

Mortgage Loan

DefinitionA mortgage loan, or simply mortgage, is used either by purchasers of real property to raise funds to buy real estate, or alternatively by...

Making Home Affordable

DefinitionThe Making Home Affordable program of the United States Treasury was launched in 2009 as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The main...

Manual Execution

What is 'Manual Execution' A method of trading with the help of a dealer or broker, versus trading automatically. Manual executions tend...

Macroeconomic Swap

What is 'Macroeconomic Swap' A type of derivative designed to help companies whose revenues are closely correlated with business cycles to reduce...

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