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Market Performance Committee (MPC): A group of NYSE market oversight specialists who monitor specialists' efficiency in maintaining fair prices and orderly markets.

Money Market: The money market isn't a place. It's the continual buying and selling of short-term liquid investments. Those investments include Treasury bills, certificates of deposit (CDs), commercial pa . . . View Full Definition

Money Market Account: These bank savings accounts normally pay interest at rates comparable to those offered by money market mutual funds or money market separate accounts offered under a variable annuity contrac . . . View Full Definition

Miss The Price-Market: Used for listed equity securities. (1) Have an order in hand but fail to execute a transaction on terms favorable to a customer and, thus, be negligent as a broker; (2) receive an order just . . . View Full Definition

Milk Marketing Orders: Administered by the Agricultural Marketing Service, federal milk marketing orders were first instituted in the 1930s to promote orderly marketing conditions by, among other things, applying . . . View Full Definition

Money Market Demand Account (MMDA): An account that pays interest based on short-term interest rates.

Money Market Fund: Money market mutual funds invest in stable, short-term debt securities, such as commercial paper, Treasury bills, and certificates of deposit (CDs), and other short-term instruments. The fun . . . View Full Definition

NASDAQ Stock Market: The NASDAQ Stock Market is the world's oldest and largest electronic stock market and is now a national securities exchange and an independent self-regulatory organization (SRO). The most ac . . . View Full Definition

Narrow Market: An inactive market, which displays large fluctuations in prices due to a low volume of trading.

Money Market Notes: Publicly traded issues that may be collateralized by mortgages and mortgage backed securities (MBS).