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Definition: OTC Market |
OTC MarketNoun1. A stock exchange where securities transactions are made via telephone and computer rather than on the floor of an exchange. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | Colourless crystals; saline, astringent taste; effloresces in air, soluble in water; insoluble in alcohol; non-toxic; non-combustible. Derivation:by heating a solution of aluminium sulphate and adding sodium chloride. The solution is allowed to cool, with constant stirring. The alum meal deposited is washed with water and centrifuged. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The market on which securities not listed on any registered stock exchange may be bought and sold. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A market which has no restrictions placed on it, either by the government or by the company. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The market for securities not quoted on the major exchanges, often those of small-and medium-sized companies. Unlisted securities market is the British term, since 1980, for the market in stocks of smaller companies; over-the-counter market is the term used in the U. S. (the system is operated under the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation(NASDAQ)system)and Japan(the OTC Market Automated Quotation System is used); third market is the U. S. term used to describe the over-the-counter market in exchange-listed securities; marché des valeurs mobilières non inscrites la cote officielle is the official name and second marché the common term used in France for the unlisted securities market for small-and medium-sized companies, since 1983, while marché hors cote is the name used for the general over-the-counter market for all companies. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: OTC MarketSynonym: over-the-counter market (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: OTC Market |
| Specialty definitions using "OTC market": Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | There is an emerging OTC market which currently accounts for about 12% of the total amount spent on reagents. (references) | |
Calculated at retail prices, the OTC market in 1999 reached DM 8.2 billion (USD 4.4 billion), or 15% of the total pharmaceuticals market. (references) | ||
This trend shows that the insured will have to, and are willing to, carry costs for OTC products themselves, but consumer price sensitivity in the OTC market will further increase. (references) | ||
Economic History | Uk | Prescription drugs use rose by 3.3 percent in 2000, and the OTC market grew by 5 percent. (references) |
Finland | The stamp duty on transactions conducted on the Stock Exchange and on the OTC market has been abolished. (references) | |
Japan | These policies result in medium-sized Japanese owner-managed firms developing "IPO fever," with the anticipation of the windfall of OTC market listing--even though it may or may not happen soon--leading them to be reluctant to be acquired. (references) | |
Political Economy | TAIWAN | Taiwan removed the foreign ownership limit on companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange and OTC Market in late 2000, with a few exceptions for designated industries. (references) |
Trade | Japan | Also, Ministry of Finance guidance to brokers to set tough standards for companies seeking to go public results in even the best companies taking up to a decade to get a listing on the over-the-counter stock market--less than 1000 over-the-counter stocks are listed on the 7-year-old JASDAQ, Japan's electronic OTC market. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
otc market | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OTC market"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | OTC-marked (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), uofficiel børshandel (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), sekundært marked (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), sekundært børsmarked (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), parallelmarked (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), efterbørs (after hours market curb, after market, curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tweede markt (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), secondaire markt (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), parallelmarkt (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), niet genoteerde markt (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), markt voor niet-genoteerde effecten (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), markt van niet ter beurze genoteerde roerende waarden (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), handel in niet-genoteerde fondsen (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | OTC-markkinat (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), OTC-kauppa (over the counter market, over-the-counter deal, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), sopimusmarkkinat (curb market, junior stock market, over the counter market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | second marché, marché hors cote, marché hors bourse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Parallelmarkt (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), geregelter Markt (commercial market, curb market, junior stock market, official market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, regulated market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), geregelter Freiverkehr (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), Freiverkehrmarkt (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), Freiverkehr (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παράλληλη αγορά (curb market, junior stock market, over the counter market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), εξωχρηματιστηριακή αγορά (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mercato secondario (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercato ristretto (curb market, junior stock market, over the counter market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercato parallelo (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercato over-the-counter (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercato fuori-borsa (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercato dei titoli non quotati in borsa (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercato borsistico secondario (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercatino (flea market), borsino (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otcay arketmay mercado paralelo (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercado não oficial (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercado livre regulamentado (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercado fora da Bolsa (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), mercado da bolsa secundário (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market). (various references) segundo mercado (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercado terciario (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), mercado de valores que no se cotizan en las bolsas principales (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market). (various references) OTC-marknaden (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), sidomarknad (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), sekundär marknadsplats (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), parallellmarknad (curb market, junior stock market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), marknad i onoterade värdepapper (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), inofficiell börs (over the counter market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-m-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: comaker, mattock. | |
-3 letters: coater, comake, comate, cottae, cottar, cotter, market, matter, mocker, racket, retack, rocket, rotate, tacker, tacket, tomcat. | |
-4 letters: actor, amort, armet, cameo, caret, carom, carte, cater, comae, comer, comet, comte, cotta, crake, crate, creak, cream, croak, korat, macer, macro, maker, mater, matte, metro, morae, motet, motte, oater, ocker, ocrea, octet, orate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 54 43      4D 61 72 6B 65 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010100 01000011 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110010 01101011 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O T C   M a r k e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0054 0043      004D 0061 0072 006B 0065 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4954372476784777186 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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