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Close-end Credit
Definition: An agreement in which advanced credit plus any finance charges are expected to be repaid in full over a definite time. Most real estate and automobile loans are closed-end agreements.
Closed Corporation
Definition: A corporation whose shares are owned by just a few people, having no public market.
Closed Fund
Definition: A mutual fund that is no longer issuing shares, mainly because it has grown too large.
Closed Out
Definition: Position that is liquidated when the client does not meet a margin call or cover a short sale.
Closed-end Fund
Definition: An investment company that issues shares like any other corporation and usually does not redeem its shares. A publicly traded fund sold on stock exchanges or over the counter that may trade above or below its net asset value. Related: Open-end fund.
Closed-end Management Company
Definition: An investment company that issues a fixed number of shares of the mutual fund that it manages, and does not create new shares if demand increases. Antithesis of an open-end management company.
Closed-end Mortgage
Definition: Mortgage against which no additional debt may be issued.
Closely Held
Definition: A corporation whose voting stock is owned by only a few shareholders.
Closely Held Company
Definition: A company who has a small group of controlling shareholders. In contrast, a widely-held firm has many shareholders. It is difficult or impossible to wage a proxy battle for any closely-held firm.
Closing Costs
Definition: All the expenses involved in transferring ownership of real estate.
Closing Out
Definition: See: Closing-Out
Closing Price
Definition: Price of the last transaction of a particular stock completed during a day's trading session on an exchange.
Closing Price (or Range)
Definition: The price (or price range) recorded during trading that takes place in the final period of a trading session's activity that is officially designated as the "close."
Closing Purchase
Definition: A transaction in which the purchaser's intention is to reduce or eliminate a short position in a stock, or in a given series of options.
Closing Quote
Definition: The last bid and offer prices of a particular stock at the close of a day's trading session on an exchange.
Closing Range
Definition: Also known as the range. The high and low prices, or bids and offers, recorded during the period designated as the official close. Related: Settlement price.
Closing Sale
Definition: A transaction in which the seller's intention is to reduce or eliminate a long position in a stock, or a given series of options.
Closing Tick
Definition: The net of the number of stocks whose closing prices are higher than their previous trades (uptick) against the number of stocks whose closing prices were lower than their previous trades (downtick). A positive closing tick indicates "buying at the close", or a bullish market; a negative closing tick indicates "selling at the close," or a bearish market. See: TRIN.
Closing Transaction
Definition: Applies to derivative products. Buy or sell transaction that eliminates an existing position (selling a long option or buying back a short option). Antithesis of opening transaction.
Closing TRIN
Definition: See: TRIN
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