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Settlement date is a securities industry term describing the date on which a trade (bonds, equities, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.) settles. That is, the actual day on which transfer of cash or assets is completed and is usually a few days after the trade was done.
Settlement procedures varied considerably across national stock markets. There were two main types of settlement period used by different countries, either a fixed number of days after the transaction known as fixed settlement lag or periodically on a fixed date when all transactions up to that date are settled known as fixed settlement date. [8]
To be a stockholder on the record date, an investor must purchase the stock before the ex-dividend date in order to allow for the 1-trading day settlement of the stock purchase. If the investor purchases the stock the day before the ex-dividend date the investor would be a stockholder on the record date and would be entitled to receive the ...
Investors in U.S. equities, corporate and municipal bonds and other securities now must settle their transactions one business day after the trade, instead of two, to comply with a rule change ...
For example, a one-month foreign exchange forward settles one month after the spot date. I.e., if today is 1 February, the spot date is 3 February and the one-month date is 3 March (assuming these dates are all business days). For a trade with two dates, such as a foreign exchange swap, the first date is usually taken as the spot date.
In finance, the spot date of a transaction is the normal settlement day when the transaction is carried out as soon as practical, i.e. "on the spot". [1] This kind of transaction is called a "spot transaction" or simply "spot", and is often described as such in contrast to a transaction which is not settled immediately, such as a futures contract or a forward contract.
In summary, short interest in all 4,738 Nasdaq ® securities totaled 14,018,513,224 shares at the November 15, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,747 issues and 14,301,574,360 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 1.83 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.36 days for the prior reporting period.
Trade date is the date on which a security trade occurs. A trade done very early or very late falls on the previous or following trade date. This occurs because in the international market a trade conducted in (e.g.) Japanese equities at 3 pm in London needs to effectively be considered as the following day for Japanese stock exchange reporting requirements.