Glossary
- Call (warrant)
- Cancelled order
- Cap (investment and leverage products)
- Capital increase
- Capital market
- Capital reduction
- Capital stock
- Cash dividend
- Cash market
- Cash settlement (warrants)
- Cash settlement price
- Cashflow
- CDAX
- Central bank
- Certificate
- Certificate of renewal
- Changes to the composition of an index
- Chart
- Chart analysis
- Classic All Share
- Clearing
- Close out
- Closed-end fund
- Closing Price
- Coco bond
- Collective custody
- Commercial paper
- Commission
- Commission trading
- Commodity futures
- Commodity futures exchange
- Common gap
- Compliance guidelines
- Conditional capital increase
- Consumer Confidence
- Continuous trading
- Convertible bond
- Cooperative stock exchanges
- Corporate bond
- Correlation coefficient
- Counter transaction
- Countercyclical investment
- Countercyclical stocks
- Country risk
- Coupon
- Covered warrant
- Creation
- Credit risk
- Creditworthiness
- Cum
- Currency bond
- Cyclical shares
- Cyclical stocks
Commercial paper
Debt instrument, similar to a bill of exchange, that is traded in the money market; with a short to medium-term maturity
Highly creditworthy institutions issue commercial paper to finance their short-term capital requirements. Commercial paper is usually discounted – i.e., its face value is high in relation to its market price, with the difference representing the “interest“ earned on the investment. The maturity of commercial paper is determined individually by the respective issuer, and is typically less than a year.
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