Sitar

Entertainment / Music / Sitar: Long-necked plucked chordophone of northern India, with movable frets and a rounded gourd body: used as solo instrument and with tabla.
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Depositary Bank

Business / Taxes / Depositary Bank: A US bank that holds American depositary shares (ADSs), or shares of corporations based outside the United States, and sells American depositary receipts (ADRs) to US investors is called a depositary MORE

American Depositary Share (ADS)

Business / Taxes / American Depositary Share (ADS): When a company based overseas wants to sell its shares in the US markets, it can offer them through a US bank, which is known as the depositary. The depositary bank holds the issuing company's shares, MORE

Global Depositary Receipt (GDR)

Business / Taxes / Global Depositary Receipt (GDR): To raise money in more than one market, some corporations use global depositary receipts (GDRs) to sell their stock on markets in countries other than the one where they have their headquarters. The G MORE

Standard and Poors Depositary Receipt (SPDR)

Business / Taxes / Standard and Poors Depositary Receipt (SPDR): When you buy SPDRs ?€” pronounced spiders ?€” you're buying shares in a unit investment trust (UIT) that owns a portfolio of stocks included in Standard & Poor's 500-stock Index (S&P 500). A s MORE

American Depositary Receipt (ADR)

Business / Taxes / American Depositary Receipt (ADR): Shares of hundreds of major overseas-based companies, including names such as British Petroleum, Sony, and Toyota, are traded as ADRs on US stock markets in US dollars. ADRs are actually receipts issu MORE

Regulation D

Business / Finance / Regulation D: Federal Reserve Board regulation that currently requires member banks to hold reserves against their net borrowings from foreign offices of other banks over a 28-day averaging period. Regulation D has MORE