Dutch auction

Dutch Auction
Dutch auction, started in Netherlands' farms, is a descending price auction for multiple identical items. A true Dutch auction starts with a prohibitive price and is bid lower.

Dutch Auction
Dutch Auction definition :
Auction in which the lowest price necessary to sell the entire offering becomes the price at which all securities offered are sold. This technique has been used in Treasury auctions.

Dutch Auction
A type of auction in which the price on an item is lowered until it gets its first bid and is sold at that price. The Treasury auction is a Dutch auction.
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dutch auction preferred stock
type of adjustable-rate preferred stock whose dividend is determined every seven weeks in a dutch auction process by corporate bidders.

Dutch auction can refer to two very different processes used in the auction world. Originally, a Dutch auction referred specifically to a type of auction that starts with a high price that keeps going down until the item sells.

Dutch Auction
Method of sale whereby the lowest price at which the entire issue can be sold is established as the uniform price for the entire issue.

DUTCH AUCTION " A method sometimes used when the Treasury is selling new notes or bonds. The Treasury opens all bids and determines the lowest acceptable bid price 9stop-out price). All successful bidders pay the stop-out price.

Dutch auction
Auction in which the lowest price necessary to sell the entire offering becomes the price at which all securities offered are sold. This technique has been used in Treasury auctions. Often used in risk arbitrage.

Dutch auction
A Dutch auction opens at the highest price and drops gradually until there's a buyer willing to pay the amount being asked. The transaction is completed at that price.

4- Dutch Auction
A system of auction where the price of the item (like a T-bill) is lowered until it gets its first bid. After that, all buyers buy at that price.

The Dutch auction, also a first-price auction, is descending. That is, the auctioneer begins at a high price, higher than he believes the item will fetch, then decreases the price until a bidder finally calls out, 'Mine! ...

See: Dutch Auction; Treasury Bill
Tender Offer
An offer to buy shares from the target company's stockholders by another company or organization. The offer may be for cash, securities or both. Often, the goal is to take control of the target company.

A type of Dutch Auction Preferred Stock (A Merrill Lynch product).
Auction markets
Markets in which the prevailing price is determined through the free interaction of prospective buyers and sellers, as on the floor of the stock exchange.

An English or Dutch auction will work well for a seller if there is more than one serious bidder, as competition will ensure that the price is set at the level at which it is not worth more to any other bidder but the winner.

Cumulative Auction Market Preferred Stocks (CAMPS)Stands for Cumulative Auction Market Preferred Stocks, Oppenheimer & Company's Dutch Auction preferred stock product. Canadian agenciesAgency banks established by Canadian Banks in the U.S.

Auction Market Preferred Stock (AMPS) A type of Dutch Auction Preferred Stock (A Merrill Lynch product).

the English auction which is characterised by the auctioneer who proposes a low base as a start for the subject of the auction, thus to achieve the subject it is required to increase the bid price with minimum increments; the Dutch auction which is ...

Auction rate securities (ARS) are structured much like VRDOs, but rates are reset and liquidity is provided through a periodic Dutch auction. Investors who wish to acquire an ARS submit bids in that auction.

Descending Price Auction 'Dutch Auction'
In this type of auction, the price starts high and then starts to fall. The first person to bid gets to buy the good.

AUCTION RATE PREFERRED SECURITIES (ARPS) - Securities issued by a tax-exempt bond fund as preferred shares earning periodic dividend payments based on a rate of return determined through a Dutch auction procedure.

APS - Auction Preferred Stock. A type of Dutch Auction Preferred Stock (Goldman Sachs product).
APT - See: Arbitrage Pricing Theory
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Floating rate preferred stock, the dividend on which is adjusted every
seven weeks through a Dutch auction.
Balloon maturity
Any large principal payment due at maturity for a bond or loan with or without a a sinking
fund requirement.

A form of adjustable-rate preferred stock in which the dividend is ascertained in a Dutch Auction process by corporate bidders every seven weeks.
Duty
A tax on imports, exports, or consumption goods.
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Government securities, short-term municipal notes, medium-term commercial paper notes, Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs), Dutch Auction Preferred Stock and other instruments when both parties to the trade are properly collateralized.

shareholders that provides more preferable tax treatment for shareholders than dividends. Treasury stock is the name given to previously issued stock that has been repurchased by the firm. A repurchase is achieved through either a dutch auction, ...

The weighted average of the maturity of all the income streams, including capital repayment, from a bond or portfolio of bonds, stated in ye...(Read more)
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A repurchase is achieved through either a Dutch auction, open market, purchase, or tender offer.

Auction rate preferred stock (ARPS) Floating rate preferred stock, the dividend on which is adjusted every seven weeks through a Dutch auction.

Dutch auction Also known as descending price auction, is a type of auction that uses a bidding... dutch disease The deindustrialization of a nation's economy that occurs when the discovery...

See also: Banks, Adjustable rate, Bills, Floating Rate, Stockholder Equity