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free float
The free float of a company is the portion of its shares that can be publicly traded. In order to be listed on certain stock exchanges, companies have to satisfy particular free float requirements set down by the exchange. These requirements can include a certain number of shares worth a certain amount and/or that the shares should represent a particular percentage of the total number of shares issued in the company. The concern is that investors in companies with a smaller free float are at...
Business glossary
- business ecosystemIncreasingly, businesses operate in a broader network of related businesses offering particular products or services. This is known as a...
- business model
- classical economics
- corporate governance
- corporate responsibility
- elasticity of demand
- flexible working
- generation Y
- green technology
- hidden needs
- market capitalisation
- moral hazard
- price/earnings ratio
- private equity
- return on equity
- social media
- sustainable enterprise
- trade secret
- value-based pricing
- value investing
- venture capital
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Buzz Words
- biomimicryBiomimicry is broadly used to describe any process in which a shape or process in nature is used to inspire an innovation. Biomimicry has...
- London whale
- phablet
- austerity
- countercyclical buffering
- crowdsourcing
- dark pools
- Dodd-Frank Act
- ESG
- Glass-Steagall Act
- grey dollar
- hawk
- inflation targeting
- Keynesian economics
- microfinance
- sukuk (Islamic bonds)
- spread betting
- sustainable development
- too big to fail
- toxic assets
- Volcker rule
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In the News
- big dataBig data is the term used to describe the huge volumes of data generated by traditional business activities and from new sources such as...
- cyber crime
- Financial Policy Committee FPC
- financial regulation
- fiscal cliff
- funding for lending
- gamification
- GSifi
- IMF
- insider trading
- IPO
- Libor
- monetary transmission
- peak oil
- QE3
- risk on, risk off
- Serious Fraud Office
- sovereign bonds
- strategic alliance
- proprietary trading
- zombie household
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