Crossword-Solution: CONTANGO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contango | n. | The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. |
| Contango | n. | The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CONTANGO | anagram | CANTGOON |
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| Stock Exchange. | 13 answers |
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Sentences with CONTANGO (5)
Goldbury) A Company Promoter this with special education, Which teaches what Contango means and also Backwardation— To speculators he supplies a grand financial leaven, Time was when two were company—but now it must be seven.
One of the few instances I remember of our Jorian stooping to a pun, is upon the contango: ingenious truly, but objectionable, because a pun.
The sum he might raise on the policies of insurance would about cover these bills; and, simultaneously with their withdrawal, fresh bills might be floated, and the horse-leech cry of the brokers for contango might be satisfied until there came a reaction in the City, and the turning tide should float him into some harbour of safety.
Are our dramatists to blame for withholding from us the heroes of our modern society? Ought we to have-- 'Sir Moses, Sir Aaron, Sir Jamramagee, Two stock-jobbing Jews, and a shuffling Parsee'? Baron Contango, the Hon.
CONTANGO, a Stock Exchange term for the rate of interest paid by a "bull" who has bought stock for the rise and does not intend to pay for it when the Settlement arrives.