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Open contracts — Contracts which have been bought or sold without the transaction having been completed by subsequent sale or purchase, or by making or taking actual delivery of the financial instrument or physical commodity. The New York Times Financial Glossary … Financial and business terms
Open interest — (also known as open contracts or open commitments) refers to the total number of derivative contracts, like futures and options, that have not been settled in the immediately previous time period for a specific underlying security. A large open… … Wikipedia
Open interest (futures) — Open interest is the number of open contracts of derivatives like futures and options that have a time limit after which they expire. Open interest in a derivative is the sum of all contracts that have not expired, been exercised or physically… … Wikipedia
open interest — The total number of futures or options contracts of a given commodity that have not yet been offset by an opposite futures or option transaction nor fulfilled by delivery of the commodity or option exercise. Each open transaction has a buyer and… … Financial and business terms
Open interest — The total number of derivative contracts traded that not yet been liquidated either by an offsetting derivative transaction or by delivery. Related: liquidation * * * open interest ˌopen ˈinterest noun [uncountable] FINANCE in futures (= buying a … Financial and business terms
Contracts of Employment Act 1963 — Parliament of the United Kingdom Long title ... Statute book chapter 1963 … Wikipedia
Open Data in Canada — describes the capacity for the Canadian Federal Government and other levels of government in Canada to provide online access to internal data in a standards compliant Web 2.0 way. Government 2.0 is a way to engage individuals and businesses in… … Wikipedia
open-end — ˈopen end adjective [only before a noun] an open end fund or trust does not have a fixed number of shares: • an open end mutual fund * * * open end UK US adjective ► (also open ended) FINANCE used to describe an investment fund in which shares… … Financial and business terms
Open GI — is a software company based in Warndon, Worcester, England, with around 300 employees. It supplies a proprietary software programme to the insurance broking market that integrates with open market hardware and Microsoft applications. Systems used … Wikipedia
open — 1) The first price of the day for a contract on a securities or futures exchange. Futures exchanges post opening ranges for daily trading. Due to the fast moving operation of futures markets, this range of closely related prices allows market… … Financial and business terms
