asked and bid

bid and asked — ˌbid and ˈasked adjective FINANCE relating to the highest price a buyer is willing to pay and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept: • The OTC Bulletin Board will provide bid and asked quotes on the smaller stocks. * * * bid and asked UK …   Financial and business terms

bid — An expression indicating a desire to buy a commodity at a given price, opposite of offer. Chicago Board of Trade glossary The request to buy a futures contract at a specified price; the opposite of offer. The CENTER ONLINE Futures Glossary bid or …   Financial and business terms

bid-asked spread — The difference between the bid and the asked prices ( bid price; asked price). Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …   Financial and business terms

bid and asked prices — bid and asked prices, (in stock market quotations) the highest price bid and the lowest price asked for securities that are not actively traded …   Useful english dictionary

bid price — bid or bid price The trading price acceptable to a prospective buyer of securities. American Banker Glossary This is the quoted bid, or the highest price an investor is willing to pay to buy a security. Practically speaking, this is the available …   Financial and business terms

bid-ask prices — «BIHD ASK, AHSK», = bid and asked prices. (Cf. ↑bid and asked prices) …   Useful english dictionary

Bid And Asked — A two way price quotation that indicates the best price at which a security can be sold and bought at a given point in time.The bid price represents the maximum price that a buyer or buyers are willing to pay for a security. The ask price… …   Investment dictionary

bid — An offer by an intending purchaser to pay a designated price for property which is about to be sold at auction. An offer to perform a contract for work and labor or supplying materials or goods at a specified price. Public contracts are… …   Black's law dictionary

bid — An offer by an intending purchaser to pay a designated price for property which is about to be sold at auction. An offer to perform a contract for work and labor or supplying materials or goods at a specified price. Public contracts are… …   Black's law dictionary

bid-and-asked — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective 1. of market quotations : showing both the least price acceptable to a seller and the highest acceptable to a buyer 2. of a market or exchange : functioning on the basis of bid and asked quotations …   Useful english dictionary

Bid-asked spread — The difference between the bid and asked prices. The New York Times Financial Glossary …   Financial and business terms