Word Finder - liquidity

definition

The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash

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My Picasso painting is not very liquid, it would take me months to sell it. Gold on the other hand is convertible to cash at any moment, making it a very liquid commodity.

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The state or property of being liquid.

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An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.

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Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack liquidity.

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Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.

Your average company is less liquidity constrained than your average employe.

There's no right way to create liquidity because everyone is different and responds to the outcomes of creating liquidity differently.

Monitoring becomes much more labor intensive and difficult in asset classes where there is low liquidity and lower transparency.

Stock loans are used to enhance liquidity in the financial markets.

Second, the Bank has introduced repos to manage banking system liquidity.

Whole life insurance is a suitable vehicle to provide cash liquidity at the insured's death to settle an estate, to pay estate taxes, to pay for final expenses, or to equalize an estate.

But, far below the freezing-point, transformations may take place in the solid metal, and follow a course quite parallel with that of freezing, though with no suggestion of liquidity.

Such cancelation would significantly reduce the liquidity and marketability of any Molecular Sensing Shares not assented to the Offer.

At least £ 15m was required from player sales in order to improve liquidity.

The Bank will be particularly alert to the need to supply an adequate amount of sterling liquidity through the millenium period.

Topping In global liquidity, the process of sending funding payments from accounts held in the UK to accounts held overseas.

Second, it should include provision of sufficient official liquidity in distress conditions.

In the immediate aftermath, a key priority was to make sure that markets had adequate liquidity to continue and settle their business.

In the UK, we tend to prefer smaller units for increased liquidity.

Second, the provision of intra-day liquidity does not effect a central bank's ability to control one-day (or longer) interest rates.

On Friday 24 December 1999 the Bank of England published, on its webpage, data on UK foreign currency liquidity for end-November 1999.

These additional securities will also be eligible as sterling stock liquidity under the FSA sterling stock liquidity under the FSA sterling stock liquidity regime.

Indeed the more the solvency of institutions is uncertain, the more the regulation of liquidity becomes important.

These additional securities will also be eligible as sterling stock liquidity under the FSA sterling stock liquidity regime.

The Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) is supportive of initiatives to improve investment and liquidity in smaller companies.

Such plans are often highly customizable due to high liquidity, so you can expect more control over your policy than with a traditional insurance company.

Free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, is defined as cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures.

In some cases, the corporate failures reflect an inability to resolve temporary liquidity problems affecting a company that remains viable in the longer-term.

Cash inflows and outflows used for investing, operations, and financing are tracked to determine a firm's liquidity.

As liquidity might be looked upon as the ne plus ultra of softness, this is the right place for stating that, while most metals, when heated up to their melting points, pass pretty abruptly from the solid to the liquid state, platinum and iron first assume, and throughout a long range of temperatures retain, a condition of viscous semi-solidity which enables two pieces of them to be "welded" together by pressure into one continuous mass.