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Definition of

asked price

Markets

security's selling price the price at which a security is offered for sale.

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  • Price Discovery in IPOs

    Best Practice

    allocations. One way to gauge the quality of the buy-side analysts is to monitor their order submission strategy and their trading behavior after the IPO. Strike orders may indicate poor analysis, while limit or step orders are better signals for price discovery. If a client often asks for large allocations
    By Jos van Bommel

  • Current Price of a Bond

    Calculations

    The narrow range within which a given bond price falls, based on that bond’s current asking price and bid price.

  • Fair Value Accounting: SFAS 157 and IAS 39

    Best Practice

    For financial instruments trading in active markets, the appropriate quoted market of an asset held (or liability to be issued) is the current bid price, whereas for assets to be acquired (or liability held), it is the current ask price
    By Kevin Ow Yong

  • Urgent Need to Retool Business Faculties with Financial Historians and Eject the Financial Engineers

    Viewpoints

    Instead, a simple question was asked in isolation about prices and a whole generation—armed with economics degrees and other financial qualifications that had invariably supplied the wrong answers to the wrong questions—marched off to create a new era of certainty.
    By Russell Napier

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Definitions of ’asked price’ and meaning of ’asked price’ are from the book publication, QFINANCE – The Ultimate Resource, © 2009 Bloomsbury Information Ltd. Find definitions for ’asked price’ and other financial terms with our online QFINANCE Financial Dictionary.

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