Running Headers and Footers Sample
This shows a sample dictionary with the first definition on a page in the header of the right hand pages and the last in the header of left hand pages.
This is done by using the string-set css property to set a variable that can be reused.
To get the last definition on the page, use the last argument to the content attribute of the header:
content: string(definition, last);
This page has a blank header (controlled by the :first pseudo selector). The content starts on the next page
- A la criée
- A la criée is an auction system where dealings are conducted by open-outcry.
- Abandonment
- Allowing an option to expire unexercised. Also, withdrawal from a cancellable forward contract to purchase securities.
- Accrued interest
- The amount of interest accumulated between the most recent payment and the sale of a fixed-interest security. For most bonds, accrued interest must be added to the purchase price, but that amount will be recovered by the purchaser in the next interest payment.
- Action
- French for share.
- Action de jouissance
- Share which grants the right to participate in the net profit of the company without conferring ownership rights. French/Belgian term.
- Action ordinaire
- French ordinary share.
- Action privilégiée
- French for preference share.
- Active fund
- A fund in which the fund manager actively manages investments.
- Active management
- Fund managers who strive to outperform the market by identifying stocks that could produce better returns and beat the overall market (or target index).
- Actuals
- The physical or cash commodity, as distinguished from futures contracts.
- After hours dealing
- On the London Stock Exchange, dealings done after the MQP. Such dealings are treated as dealings done on the following business day. In general, trading after the hours a stock market has closed. (For all major US stock markets, after-hours trading is 16:00-18:30 Eastern Standard Time). After-hours trading often takes place after the release of news that could make the price of a stock rise or fall sharply after the close of trading. Participation in the after-hours market is strictly voluntary and may offer less liquidity and inferior prices.
- Agency cross
- A trade in which a single broker acts as the agent for both the buyer and seller. This can occur when a member firm simultaneously receives a buy and a sell order from two different customers but for the same number of shares in the same stock. When these orders reach the floor broker, he can easily cross them and complete the transaction, but only after going to the designated trading post for that stock and announcing the bid in case another broker is prepared to offer a better price.
- Agency order
- An order that a broker/dealer executes for the account of a customer with another professional or retail investor and for which a commission is typically charged.
- Aktie
- German for share.
- Algorithmic trading
- Trading in which buy or sell orders of a defined quantity are determined by a quantitative model that automatically generates the timing of orders and the size of orders based on goals specified by the parameters and constraints of the algorithm.
- All or none (AON)
- A condition that the full amount of an order to buy or sell is executed at an agreed price; a lesser amount is unacceptable.
- Alpha
- The Alpha is a measure of how much a stock has risen or fallen over a one-year period.
- Alternative trading system (ATS)
- Non-traditional, computerised trading systems that compete with or supplement dealer markets and traditional exchanges. These private trading systems; facilitate electronic trading in millions of shares of public issues every day, but do not provide a listing service. ECNs are alternative trading systems; however, not all ATSs are ECNs. (See Electronic communications network)
- Gamma
- The rate at which a delta changes over time.
- Gearing
- A company's debts expressed as a percentage of its equity capital.
- Geldkurs
- The bid price on German and Swiss exchanges.
- Genussscheine
- Dividend right certificate (German and Swiss stock exchanges). Security incorporating the right to participate in the net profit and the liquidation proceeds of a company as well as the right to subscribe to new shares in the case of a rights issue. However, the holder has no membership rights, in particular he cannot attend shareholder meetings. The dividend-right certificate may be in bearer or registered form.
- Geregelter Markt
- The regulated market section of the German stock exchanges.
- Gilt edged
- In the UK, loans issued on behalf of the government to fund its spending. Longs are gilts with a redemption date greater than 15 years. Mediums are those with a redemption date between 5 and 15 years. Shorts are those with a redemption date within 5 years.
- In the US top-quality stocks issued by corporations with a known record for profit and of paying dividends over the years. In the US, the term also refers to high-quality bonds.
- Ginnie Mae
- Securities issued by the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) of the US.
- Giovannini Group
- The Giovannini Group was formed in 1996 to advise the European Commission on issues relating to EU financial integration and the efficiency of euro-denominated financial markets. The Group consists of financial-market participants and meets under the chairmanship of Dr. Alberto Giovannini. The Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs provides the secretariat, with officials from the Directorate-General for the Internal Market and from the European Central Bank (ECB) also supporting the Group's work.
- Global Depositary Receipt (GDR)
- Certificate, denominated in US dollars, which represents ownership of a given number of a company's shares and which can be listed and traded independently from the underlying shares.
- Going long
- The purchase of a stock or commodity for investment or speculation.
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- A la criée
- A la criée is an auction system where dealings are conducted by open-outcry.
- Abandonment
- Allowing an option to expire unexercised. Also, withdrawal from a cancellable forward contract to purchase securities.
- Accrued interest
- The amount of interest accumulated between the most recent payment and the sale of a fixed-interest security. For most bonds, accrued interest must be added to the purchase price, but that amount will be recovered by the purchaser in the next interest payment.
- Action
- French for share.
- Action de jouissance
- Share which grants the right to participate in the net profit of the company without conferring ownership rights. French/Belgian term.
- Action ordinaire
- French ordinary share.
- Action privilégiée
- French for preference share.
- Active fund
- A fund in which the fund manager actively manages investments.
- Active management
- Fund managers who strive to outperform the market by identifying stocks that could produce better returns and beat the overall market (or target index).
- Actuals
- The physical or cash commodity, as distinguished from futures contracts.
- After hours dealing
- On the London Stock Exchange, dealings done after the MQP. Such dealings are treated as dealings done on the following business day. In general, trading after the hours a stock market has closed. (For all major US stock markets, after-hours trading is 16:00-18:30 Eastern Standard Time). After-hours trading often takes place after the release of news that could make the price of a stock rise or fall sharply after the close of trading. Participation in the after-hours market is strictly voluntary and may offer less liquidity and inferior prices.
- Agency cross
- A trade in which a single broker acts as the agent for both the buyer and seller. This can occur when a member firm simultaneously receives a buy and a sell order from two different customers but for the same number of shares in the same stock. When these orders reach the floor broker, he can easily cross them and complete the transaction, but only after going to the designated trading post for that stock and announcing the bid in case another broker is prepared to offer a better price.
- Agency order
- An order that a broker/dealer executes for the account of a customer with another professional or retail investor and for which a commission is typically charged.
- Aktie
- German for share.
- Algorithmic trading
- Trading in which buy or sell orders of a defined quantity are determined by a quantitative model that automatically generates the timing of orders and the size of orders based on goals specified by the parameters and constraints of the algorithm.
- All or none (AON)
- A condition that the full amount of an order to buy or sell is executed at an agreed price; a lesser amount is unacceptable.
- Alpha
- The Alpha is a measure of how much a stock has risen or fallen over a one-year period.
- Alternative trading system (ATS)
- Non-traditional, computerised trading systems that compete with or supplement dealer markets and traditional exchanges. These private trading systems; facilitate electronic trading in millions of shares of public issues every day, but do not provide a listing service. ECNs are alternative trading systems; however, not all ATSs are ECNs. (See Electronic communications network)
- Gamma
- The rate at which a delta changes over time.
- Gearing
- A company's debts expressed as a percentage of its equity capital.
- Geldkurs
- The bid price on German and Swiss exchanges.
- Genussscheine
- Dividend right certificate (German and Swiss stock exchanges). Security incorporating the right to participate in the net profit and the liquidation proceeds of a company as well as the right to subscribe to new shares in the case of a rights issue. However, the holder has no membership rights, in particular he cannot attend shareholder meetings. The dividend-right certificate may be in bearer or registered form.
- Geregelter Markt
- The regulated market section of the German stock exchanges.
- Gilt edged
- In the UK, loans issued on behalf of the government to fund its spending. Longs are gilts with a redemption date greater than 15 years. Mediums are those with a redemption date between 5 and 15 years. Shorts are those with a redemption date within 5 years.
- In the US top-quality stocks issued by corporations with a known record for profit and of paying dividends over the years. In the US, the term also refers to high-quality bonds.
- Ginnie Mae
- Securities issued by the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) of the US.
- Giovannini Group
- The Giovannini Group was formed in 1996 to advise the European Commission on issues relating to EU financial integration and the efficiency of euro-denominated financial markets. The Group consists of financial-market participants and meets under the chairmanship of Dr. Alberto Giovannini. The Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs provides the secretariat, with officials from the Directorate-General for the Internal Market and from the European Central Bank (ECB) also supporting the Group's work.
- Global Depositary Receipt (GDR)
- Certificate, denominated in US dollars, which represents ownership of a given number of a company's shares and which can be listed and traded independently from the underlying shares.
- Going long
- The purchase of a stock or commodity for investment or speculation.