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Offer curveA curve showing, for a two-good model, the quantity of one good that a country will export (or "offer") for each quantity of the other that it imports. Also called the reciprocal demand curve, it is convenient for representing both exports and imports in the same curve and can be used for analyzing tariffs and other changes.Similar MatchesCash offerCash offerOften used in risk arbitrage. Proposal, either hostile or friendly, to acquire a target company through the payment of cash for the stock of the target. Compare to exchange offer. Tender offerTender offerWhen a company decides to list its shares on the Stock Exchange, it can either offer its shares to the public at a price which it stipulates, or it can make an 'offer by tender'.Put simply, it invites the public to bid for the shares, and when all the tenders are in, it sells them to the highest bidders, thus raising the maximum amount of capital. Sometimes, the issue of shares will be subject to a reserve price.Offers by tender are less common than offers for sale. Godfather offerGodfather offerAn aggressive takeover technique in that the proposed offer of the acquiring company is so large that management of the target company cannot refuse, out of fear of lawsuits or shareholder revolt. Offer priceOffer priceGenerically, the price at which securities are offered for sale. Specifically, uses of the term include:the price at which a new issue of shares is offered to the publicthe price at which a market maker offers to sell shares the price at which units can be purchased from an institution in a unit trustThe bid price is the price at which market makers will buy shares and the difference between the bid price and offer price is called the spread. Rights offeringRights offeringSee 'rights issue'. Further SuggestionsSecondary distribution or offeringDual syndicate equity offering Rights offering Creeping tender offer Offering scale Secondary Offering Inelastic offer curve London Inter Bank Offered Rate Offer wanted Blank check offering open offer Paris Interbank Offer Rate (PIBOR) Registered secondary offering bid/offer spread London interbank offered rate Offer Blitzkrieg tender offer offer for sale Competitive offering Offering statement Public offering Rights Offering Public securities offering Intrastate offering Shelf offering |
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