Definitions beginning with M

market value - permalink - collapse

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The price that the market - any market - sets at a particular time as the price at which an asset can be bought or sold.
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Browse Related Terms: Cornering the market, Fair market value, Marking to Market, Slow market, Soft market, Spoofing

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The price at which buyers and sellers trade similar items in an open marketplace. Bonds are considered liquid and are therefore valued at a market price.
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Browse Related Terms: BV (Book Value), Carrying Amount, Coupon, diversification, Marking to Market, Maturity Date, Par Value, Securities Lending

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The market value of a stock or bond is the current price at which that security is trading.
In a more general sense, if an item has not been priced for sale, its fair market value is the amount a buyer and seller agree upon. That's assuming that both know what the item is worth and neither is being forced to complete the transaction.

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Browse Related Terms: Fair market value, Overbought, Soft market, Thin market, Thinly traded

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The amount a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for a home. An appraised value is an estimate of the current fair market value.
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The price a property can realistically sell for, based upon comparable selling prices of other properties in the same geographical area.
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The current value of your home based on what purchaser would pay. An appraisal is sometimes used to determine market value.
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Browse Related Terms: Appraisal, appraisal fee, Appraised Value, Appraiser, Comparables, Comparative Market Analysis (COMPS), Eminent Domain, Equity, Fair market value, property appraisal

All > Technology > Records Management

the price that a record or group of records may fetch if offered for sale. See commercial value; intrinsic value
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Browse Related Terms: administrative value, archival value, commercial value, enduring value, evidential value, fiscal value, historical value, Information, informational value, Intrinsic value, legal value, long-term record, monetary value, oral history, permanent record, permanent value, research value, shelf life, transitory record, Value

Marking - permalink - collapse

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Human readable word or phrase acting as an indicator of all or part of the security constraints that apply to a document so marked [CESG]. See also: Label.
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Browse Related Terms: Confinement, granularity, information flow, one-way regulator

When an investment is marked to the market, its value is adjusted to reflect the current market price.
With mutual funds, for example, marking to the market means that a fund's net asset value (NAV) is recalculated each day based on the closing prices of the fund's underlying investments.
With a margin account to buy futures contracts, the value of the contracts in the account is recalculated at least once a day to determine whether it meets the firm's margin requirements.
If that value falls below the minimum specified, you get a margin call and must add assets to your account to return it to the required level.

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Browse Related Terms: Closing price, futures, Go long, Open interest, options, Trading volume

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When you buy securities from a broker-dealer or market maker, you pay a markup. The markup is either a percentage of the selling price or a flat fee, over and above the amount it cost the broker-dealer to purchase the security.
The amount of this markup, or spread, is the broker-dealer's profit and depends in part on the demand for that security or others like it.
For example, if investors are buying up certain types of bonds, a broker-dealer may increase the markup for bonds in that category.
You might say that the broker-dealer acquires the security at wholesale price and sells it to you at retail price. The difference is the markup.
If the markup doesn't appear on the confirmation statement, you can ask the broker-dealer about the markup amount. Or, you can compare the prices that different broker-dealers quote for the same security or the price being quoted for the security on the Internet. The differences in price generally reflect the differences in markups.

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Browse Related Terms: broker-dealer, Frontrunning, Markdown, Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), Tailgating

All > Law > US Legislature

The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
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Browse Related Terms: amendment, amendment in the nature of a substitute, "christmas tree" bill, clean bill, committee amendment, committee substitute, floor amendment, germane, nongermane amendment, relevant

Markush Claim - permalink - collapse

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See Claim, Markush.
Robert M. Hunter, Ph.D. - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: aggregation, Claim, Markush, Indefinite Claim, Indefiniteness, Markush doctrine, Markush Group, Prolix Claim

Markush doctrine - permalink - collapse

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When materials recited in a claim are so related as to constitute claiming the members of the claimed group in the alternative, such as "selected from the group consisting of A, B and C."

-- see MPEP 803.02 and 2173.05(h) for more

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Browse Related Terms: aggregation, Claim, Markush, Indefinite Claim, Indefiniteness, Markush Claim, Markush Group, Prolix Claim

Markush Group - permalink - collapse

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In a claim, a finite group from which an element is selected. See Claim, Markush.
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Browse Related Terms: aggregation, Claim, Markush, Indefinite Claim, Indefiniteness, Markush Claim, Markush doctrine, Prolix Claim

MAROB - permalink - collapse

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A voluntary marine observation program of the National Weather Service in the early stages of development whose goal is to solicit meteorological and oceanographic observations in coded format from recreational and small commercial mariners who are not part of the more in-depth Voluntary Observing Ship program.
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Browse Related Terms: Air Transportable Mobile Unit, Barograph, Blowing, isochrone, MAREP, OBS, parameter, Reconnaissance Code, Voluntary Observing Ship Program, VOS

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In computer display, a line of alphanumeric characters that scrolls through, and within, a defined area (window). 2. An HTML tag that enables the display of a marquee.
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Browse Related Terms: alphabetic character set, alphanumeric character set, alphanumeric code, alphanumeric data, character generator, clear, code character, coded character set, data link escape character (DLE), digital data, escape character (ESC), glyph, graphic character, print suppression

MARS - permalink - collapse

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Machine Assisted Reference Section
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Browse Related Terms: Article of Manufacture, Cross Reference, design patent application, Machine, Product, utility patent, utility patent application

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A voluntary marine observation program of the National Weather Service whereby U.S. Coast Guard Sector Stations report marine weather conditions from several shore locations within their operating area. The reports are in an abbreviated plain language format with fixed fields.
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Browse Related Terms: alert, Augmented report, Automated Report, Hail Size, METAR, Pilot Report, PIREP, Present weather, Report, RPRT