Related Words

Asymmetric Information: Information that is known to some people but not to other people.

Internet Information Server (IIS): A Web server that runs on the Windows NT/2000 platforms. It allows the creation of web-based applications. IIS provides both FTP server and web server capability.

Intermarket Surveillance Information System (ISIS): A database that distributes information from all the major stock exchanges in the United States.

IX (Information Exchange): Ability of aps film to communicate with devices, and devices to communicate with film.

Limit Order Information System: The electronic system supplying information about securities traded on participating exchanges so that the best securities prices can be found.

Insider Information: Refers to over-the-counter trading. Best (highest) bid and best (lowest) offer, often used in the O.T.C. Market. See: In-line.

Informational Efficiency: Organizations that furnish investment and other types of information, such as information that helps a firm monitor its cash position.

Information Retrieval: The field of science based on sorting or searching through large data sets to find relevant information.

Information Services: Transactions costs that include the assessment of the investment merits of a financial asset. Related: Search costs.

Information-Motivated Trades: Trades that are the result of either a reallocation of wealth or an implementation of an investment strategy that acts only on existing information.