Red Circle Rate: A pay rate that is above the maximum range assigned to the job grade. Employees are usually not eligible for additional pay increases until the range maximums exceed the individual pay rate.

 

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Red Circle Rate: A pay rate that is above the maximum range assigned to the job grade. Employees are usually not eligible for additional pay increases until the range maximums exceed the individual pay rate.

Profit Rate: Annual Earnings per share after taxes as a percentage of shareholders' equity capital per share at corporate book value at the beginning of the year.

Production Rate: The coupon rate at which a pass-through security guaranteed by Ginnie Mae is issued.

Proportional Reducer: Chemical method of reducing excess density and contrast from a photographic negative.

Protective Put Buying Strategy: A strategy that involves buying a put option on the underlying security that is held in a portfolio. Related: Hedge option strategies.

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Production Credit Association (PCA): Farm Credit System institutions that have direct lending authority to make short and intermediate term loans to eligible retail customers.

Prior-Preferred Stock: Preferred stock that has a higher claim on all dividends and assets in liquidation than claims of other preferred stock.

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Prime Rate: The rate a lender charges its best customers. The rate is calculated differently by each lender.