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1. l) Positions held in two different futures contracts, taken to profit from the change in the difference between the two contracts' prices; e.g., long a January Soybean contract and short a March Soybean contract would be a bull spread, used to profit from a narrowing in the difference between the two prices.
2. The difference between the prices of two futures contracts. If January beans are $6.15 and March beans are $6.28, the spread is -.13 or 13› under ($6.15 - 6.28 = -.13).
3. (anagram) parsed
4. dispersed, distributed; outspread, outstretched; extended (of a hand or an arm); set out or arranged for a meal
5. spreads: food that can be spread (onto bread, etc.); cloth cover for a bed or table; expansion, growth; large area of land; range; large meal; story or advertisement that covers two pages
6. spreads, spreading: open, extend; apply a layer on; scatter; distribute; stretch out; set a table, arrange dishes and utensils on a table; flatten
7. (finance) The difference between two yields, usually stated in terms of the number of basis points. Also the difference between the bid and the asked sides of a quote.
8. (n) The spread of A I D S in the last few years has been alarming. The spread of something is the area or range covered by it. The survey found a wide spread of opinion over the proposed new building. In a newspaper or magazine, a spread is a large article or advertisement covering one or more pages. There's a double-page spread on the latest fashions. A spread is a soft food for putting on bread and biscuits. cheese/chocolate/fish spread There's bread and various spreads for tea. Spread is also US for ranch (= a large farm on which cattle and horses are kept) . (UK and ANZ dated) A spread is also a meal, esp. one for a special occasion with a lot of different dishes arranged on a table. Sheila laid on/ (UK also) put on (= made) a lovely spread for us.
9. (1) The gap between bid and ask prices of a stock or other security. (2) The simultaneous purchase and sale of separate futures or options contracts for the same commodity for delivery in different months. Also known as a straddle. (3) Difference between the price at which an underwriter buys an issue from a firm and the price at which the underwriter sells it to the public. (4) The price an issuer pays above a benchmark fixed-income yield to borrow money.
10. Systems Programming, Research, Engineering and Development (IBM)
11. Trapping, choke: Compensating for press misregistration by adjusting the artwork of a publication. Modern printing equipment is very accurate; however, since paper stretches, curls, or twists as it passes through the press, it is impossible to print with perfect registration. Misregistration is most visible when there is a visible gap between two overlapping colors and the paper shows through or when two color overlap to produce a third color. To compensate for this, the artwork is modified so that the lighter color is spread, or made slightly larger, or the darker color is choked, or made slightly smaller. If this is done properly, the registration can be slightly off without being noticable.
12. The distance a substance (e.g., an adhesive) moves after it has been applied at ambient conditions.
13. The difference between two values. In lease transactions- the term generally is used to describe the difference between the interest rate of the lease and the interest on the debt used to fund the lease.
14. (petroleum industry) A contractor's men and equipment assembled to do a major construction job, a "spread' may be literal. As the men and equipment are strung out along the right of way for several miles. On well workover, or other jobs, the spread is a concentration of the equipment for the work.