securities

2 definitions • 5 examples

investment in a company or in government debt that can be traded on the financial markets and produces an income for the investor:

He pleaded guilty to three counts of securities fraud.

The deals represented 74 percent of all such securities issued in that year.

Prices in these particular securities markets can be volatile.

As a result, he was prevented from conducting securities transactions for a period.

This is something that securities regulators want changed.

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