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October 02, 2008

Market liquidity

market liquidity (noun) - how easy it is to sell an asset and get cash in an asset market without losing money or influencing the price on the market (cash provides the holder with more options) (See Wikipedia also see Fed Speech)

increase market liquidity
increase the market liquidity of the common stock
improve the market liquidity of the shares
enhance market liquidity

restoring market liquidity in a financial crisis

market liquidity allows for improved estimates of prices
market liquidity declines and trading slows
excess market liquidity

no amount of technological development, market liquidity or information flow will eliminate the excesses driven by human emotion

reduce market liquidity
reducing market liquidity further
a funding shock to speculators lowers market liquidity

market liquidity facilitates efficient competition

track market liquidity

drain market liquidity
will act to drain market liquidity
the receipt of sterling by the Bank will act to drain market liquidity

market liquidity falls
market liquidity rises

expected market liquidity
Does insider trading impair market liquidity?

adequate market liquidity
maintenance of adequate market liquidity
retail business, essential for the maintenance of adequate market liquidity

may adversely affect market liquidity
Market liquidity depends on a host of factors

tightening of market liquidity

greater market liquidity and lower bid-ask spreads
a more efficient market for such companies' securities, resulting in greater market liquidity and lower spreads


Example sentences:

* If the Bank holds bills which then mature, repayment will come from the rest of the banking system so market liquidity falls.

* The incentive to borrow was raised still further by a reduction in the costs of bankruptcy and an increase in market liquidity.

* Some on Wall Street have found a new culprit: a tightening of market liquidity.

* I would like to make is that no amount of technological development, market liquidity or information flow will eliminate the excesses driven by human emotion and the extremes.

* A distortion of the market in this way not only impedes the allocative efficiency of the market but may have a bearing on public confidence in the stock market; this may in turn adversely affect market liquidity.

* Market liquidity is important.

* Market liquidity depends not just on average figures of turnover but on the size of transactions that are possible.

* The retail business, which is essential for the maintenance of adequate market liquidity, declined after the 1987 stock market crash.

* Some large securities firms have withdrawn from options market making due to inadequate returns thereby reducing market liquidity further, leading to less competitive quotes and irregular updating of prices.

* Table 5.10 Commissions on eurodollar fixed rate bonds by supranationals (percent) Margins or spreads, for example over domestic government bonds, are typically influenced by a wide variety of factors, including default risk of the issuer, call risk that bonds may be liquidated early, tax exemption, maturity, and expected market liquidity.

* The development of the futures market, especially the LIFFE short sterling contract, further enhanced market liquidity.

* Charles Biderman is CEO of TrimTabs, a company that tracks market liquidity.

* In all three cases net sterling payments to the government's accounts at the Bank reduce market liquidity.

* If the EEA intervenes to support sterling (i.e. if it sells foreign currencies and buys sterling) then the receipt of sterling by the Bank will act to drain market liquidity.

* Generally, the note circulation rises towards the end of the week (as the general public withdraws cash for the weekend and the banks anticipate the demand) and falls at the start of the week: thus on Mondays and Tuesdays the fluctuations in the note circulation generally raise money market liquidity and on Thursdays and Fridays generally reduce it.

* The unwinding of such assistance (repayment of loans given by the Bank to the market or resale to the market of bills bought from it by the Bank) will drain market liquidity and will, of course, be known by the Bank in advance.

* This isn't intended as any particular message, but we are now one of the weightiest shares in the FTSE index and be we believe that it should improve the market liquidity of the shares.

* Simplification of the geographic restrictions in the trading market has increased market liquidity.

* A more efficient market for such companies' securities, resulting in greater market liquidity and lower spreads, which would benefit all investors including those in mutual funds.

* All the shares will be offered by the company as part of a comprehensive refinancing plan to reduce debt, strengthen the capital structure, increase financial flexibility and improve profitability by reducing interest costs and increase the market liquidity of the common stock --; most of the shares are currently still held by former parent Perkin-Elmer Corp, which would no doubt like to see a better price before it sells.Concurrent wants to apply proceeds from the sale to redemption in full of its senior subordinated debt --; 12.08% senior subordinated notes due 1997, with $66m face amount plus accrued interest out there.


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