Call option to buy a stated number of shares of stock at a specified price.
Gains equals losses.
A week or month order instructs the broker to fill the order by the end of the week or month or cancel the order. Average cost of capital on the firm's existing projects and activities. Measure of the level of interest rate risk calculated by weighting cash flows by the time to receipt and multiplying by the fraction of total present value represented by the cash flow at that time. Any character or set of characters can replace a pattern-matching character. Synonymous with pattern-matching character and global character.