Financial Terms by Letter: O
- Option writer
- Option-adjusted spread (OAS)
- Optional dividend
- Optional payment bond
- Options backdating
- Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
- Options contract
- Options contract multiple
- Options on physicals
- OR
- Or better
- Oral contract
- Order
- Order Book Official
- Order imbalance
- Order Parameter
- Order protection rule
- Order room
- Order splitting
- Order ticket
- Ordering Costs
- Ordinary income
- Ordinary interest
- Ordinary shares
- Organic growth
- Organization chart
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- Organized exchange
- Original face value
- Original issue discount debt (OID debt)
- Original Issue Discount securities (OIDS)
- Original margin
- Original maturity
- Originate-to-distribute
- Originate-to-hold
- Origination
- Originator
- Orphan stock
- Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE)
- OSE
- Oslo Stock Exchange
- OTC
- OTC Bulletin Board
- OTC margin stock
- OTCBB
- Other capital
- Other current assets
- Other income
- Other long-term liabilities
- Other sources
- Other than temporary impairment (OTTI)
- OTM
- OTTI
- Out
- Out of line
- Out of print
- Out of the name
- Out there
- Out with
- Outlays
- Out-of-favor industry or stock
- Out-of-the-money option
- Outperform
- Outright quote
- Outright rate
- Outside director
- Outside market
- Outside of you
- Outsourcing
- Outstanding
- Outstanding Dividends
- Outstanding share capital
- Outstanding shares
- Overage
- Overall FTC limitation
- Overall market price coverage
- Overallotment
- Overbought
- Overbought-oversold indicator
Copyright © 2011 Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University