Auction Preferred Stock

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• Dutch auction preferred stock — A form of adjustable rate preferred stock in which the dividend is ascertained in a Dutch auction process by corporate bidders every seven weeks. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …   Financial and business terms

• Auction Market Preferred Stock — AMPS A type of Dutch auction preferred stock (A Merrill Lynch product). Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …   Financial and business terms

• Auction Market Preferred Stock - AMPS — A type of dutch auction that involves a process used to reset the interest payments, or dividends, that are paid on preferred stock or mutual fund shares. The auction usually takes place through an intermediary, and will reset the dividend paid… …   Investment dictionary

• Auction rate preferred stock (ARPS) — Floating rate preferred stock, the dividend on which is adjusted every seven weeks through a Dutch auction. The New York Times Financial Glossary …   Financial and business terms

• auction rate preferred stock — ( ARPS) floating rate preferred stock, whose dividend is adjusted every seven weeks through a Dutch auction. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …   Financial and business terms

• auction market preferred stock — AMPS A US floating rate preferred stock whose dividend is set by Dutch auction …   Big dictionary of business and management

• auction market preferred stock — preference shares issued by a company where the dividend ( dividends) is variable and is set at regular intervals to a market rate by means of an auction process between investors. Also known as AMPS. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial… …   Financial and business terms

• auction market preferred stock — AMPS A type of US preference share the dividend of which is variable and set by means of an auction process between investors …   Accounting dictionary

• auction market preferred stock — Fin stock in a company owned in the United Kingdom that pays dividends whose amounts track a money market index. Abbr. AMPS …   The ultimate business dictionary

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• Auction rate security — An auction rate security (ARS) typically refers to a debt instrument (corporate or municipal bonds) with a long term nominal maturity for which the interest rate is regularly reset through a dutch auction. It could also refer to a preferred stock …   Wikipedia