Minneapolis Grain Exchange
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange, MGEX for short, is the principal market for trade in futures and options contracts for hard red spring wheat (HRSW) that is grown primarily in the northern plains of USA...
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) preserves and promotes public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions for at least $250,000; by identifying, monitoring and addressing risks...
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the independent federal agency that regulates charters and supervises federal credit unions. With the backing of the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government, NCUA operates and...
New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) offers derivative products in commodities. It is part of the CME Group of Chicago, which also owns and operates the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade...
Montreal Exchange
The Montreal Exchange (Bourse de Montréal) or simply MX is a futures and options (derivatives) exchange located in the Canadian city of Montreal. Along with equities, it offers derivative products in currencies, indices, Exchange...
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA’s mission is to protect America’s investors by making sure the securities industry...
Federal Reserve System (“Fed”)
The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States. It was founded by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial...
Deep Discount Broker
The term deep discount broker is a kind of discount broker who is professionally regulated and who buys and/or sells shares of stock and other securities through market makers or “agency only” firms. This...
Pound Sterling- GBP
The pound sterling, also called the pound, is the legal tender of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies (the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands) and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic...
Pump and Dump
Pump and dump is a type of stock scam. Under this fraud, the operators of a security artificially inflate its price. Once the price is increased, these operators offload their cheaply acquired stock to...
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), a financial and commodity futures and options exchange located at 20 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, was established in 1898 as an agricultural commodities exchange as Chicago Butter and Egg...
NASDAQ OMX
OMX AB, formed out of the merger between OM AB and HEX plc, is the holding company for eight stock exchanges in Scandinavia and Nordic and Baltic countries. It is a Swedish-Finnish company whose...
London Metal Exchange (LME)
The London Metal Exchange (LME) is a premier futures exchange, actually the largest market for futures and options contracts in base metals. The LME offers cash trading and futures and options contracts with expiry...
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
A milestone for any company is the issuance of publicly traded stock. While the motivations for an initial public offering are straightforward, the mechanism for doing so is complex. An initial public offering, or...
OTC Markets Group
The OTC market is where all securities that are not listed on a U.S. stock exchange, such as NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange, trade in the U.S. Unlike a traditional exchange, companies...