the act of piercing or perforating, as with a pointed instrument or object. 2. a hole or mark so made. 3. Zoology. a small pointlike depression. verb (used with object), punctured, puncturing. 4. to pierce or perforate, as with a pointed instrument: to puncture leather with an awl. 5. to make (a hole, perforation, etc.) by piercing or perforating: He punctured a row of holes in the cardboard.
A Regulated Market is a multilateral system, (as defined by MiFID), which brings together or facilitates the bringing together of multiple third-party buying and selling interests in financial instruments in a way that results in a contract. For example, the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Prime rate, fed funds, COFI. What it means: The interest rate at which banks and other depository institutions lend money to each other, usually on an overnight basis.The law requires banks to keep a certain percentage of their customer's money on reserve, where the banks earn no interest on it.ow it's used: Like the federal discount rate, the federal funds rate is used to control the supply of available funds and hence, inflation and other interest rates.