Spot Delivery
Delivery of shares and payment for the shares on the date of purchase or within 48 hours.
Statutory Liquidity Ratio
Banks in India are required as per the rule enforced by the Reserve Bank of India to maintain 31.5% of their demand and time liabilities in government securities and certain approved securities. These are collectively known as SLR securities.
Staying Power
Crucial in any investment strategy, it is the ability of the investor to hold on to a share, even when its price has fallen, for the recovery in future . Investors, who do not possess this, will sell their shares at a loss because they must have some cash.
Step Discount Bond
Except that the name is innovative, it’s much the same as a term discount bond. An instrument devised by the IDBI having a face value of Rs 10,250, issued at Rs 5,000, redeemed in five equal installments of Rs 2,050, a month after the end of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh years.
Stock Dividend
Distribution of additional shares to current shareholders in lieu of cash dividends with a view a conserving cash within the company. To be distinguished from BONUS ISSUES.
Stockinvest
it was introduced in March 1992, the scheme was designed by the State Bank of India at the behest of the Securities and Exchange Board of India. It is essentially a legal, non – negotiable instrument like an account payee cheque, for subscription to capital issues. An investor can buy these from an issuing bank provided that he holds an account there. The money remains in the investor’s account, earning interest, till such time as allotment is made.
Stock Splits
A US term, which means issue of bonus shares, which dilutes the value of each individual shares, as well as division of high – priced shares into a number of low – priced shares .it is a corporate action in which a company’s existing shares are divided into multiple shares. Although the number of shares outstanding increases by a specific multiple, the total dollar value of the shares remains the same compared to pre-split amounts, because no real value has been added as a result of the split.