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Normal growth firmsCompanies whose earnings grow at a constant rate.Normal growth firms Similar MatchesPermanent normal trading relationsPermanent normal trading relationsThe granting of permanent MFN status to a country that is not a member of the WTO. It is "normal" in the sense that most countries are WTO members and therefore have MFN status (or better) automatically. Normal market sizeNormal market sizeWhen shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange, the market makers have to quote a bid price and and offer price at which they will deal. But the prices they quote, which are disseminated to brokers via the SEAQ system, only have to be honoured up to a certain size of order. The Normal Market Size defines what that figure is for each company and it is based on a percentage of the share's average daily turnover in the previous year.To understand the point of NMS, you have to remember that some listed companies have hundreds of millions of shares in issue, and some have low thousands. The effect on the share price of someone buying 5,000 shares will be much greater if the company is a small one than if it is a blue chip, and it would be unfair on a market maker if the offer price quoted had to apply to any buy order no matter how large.The general rule is that quotes on a n SEAQ screen are really only relevant if the size of an order being placed (whether a buy order or sell order) is within the NMS. If it is higher than the NMS, the market maker will not be obliged to deal at the quoted prices.The NMS system replaced the previous alpha, beta, gamma, delta shares system which was a reflection of the order of the most actively traded shares but had unintentionally become a measure of corporate strength, status and reliability. Normal trading unitNormal trading unitSee: Round lot. Normal retirement ageNormal retirement ageThe age at which an individual normally retires (60 to 70 for men and 55 to 70 for women). Men qualify for the state pension at 65 and women currently qualify at 60. However the qualifying normal retirement age for women will be increasing depending on their date of birth, the scale applying for those born after 6th April 1950. For personal pension plans individuals may take retirement between the ages of 50 and 75 and for retirement annuities between the ages of 60 and 75. Normal investment practiceNormal investment practiceThe investment history of a customer, which is used as a benchmark to test the bona fide public offerings requirement of the allocation of a hot issue. Further SuggestionsNormal valuenormal trading unit normal retirement date Normalized earnings Cumulative abnormal return (CAR) Standardized normal distribution Normal portfolio Normal annuity form Normal Market Size (NMS) normalised earnings Normal retirement Normal Distribution Normal random variable Normal backwardation theory |
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