This refers to how easily securities can be bought or sold in the market A security is liquid when there are enough units outstanding to allow large transactions without a substantial change in price Liquidity is one of the most important characteristics of a good market Liquidity also refers to how easily investors can convert their securities into cash and refers to a corporation's cash position, i e how much the value of current assets exceed current liabilities
An assets property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash
The ease with which financial assets can be converted to cash without creating a substantial change in price or value Liquidity is influenced by the amount of float in the security, investor interest and size of the investment being converted to cash A blue-chip stock like Microsoft is liquid because it is actively traded so its share price won't be dramatically affected by a few buy or sell orders Money-market funds and checking accounts provide instant liquidity because you can write a check on the assets BACK TO TOP
The liquidity of a stock is the ease with which the market can absorb volume buying or selling, without dramatic fluctuation in price
The ease with which assets or investments can be converted into cash that is, made "liquid " Liquid investments include savings accounts, Canada Savings Bonds, Treasury bills and money market mutual funds In contrast, a home is not considered a liquid investment because it cannot be easily transformed into cash
refers to an investor's ability to convert an asset into cash The faster the conversion the more liquid the asset Illiquidity is a risk in that an investor might not be able to convert the asset to cash when most needed Moreover, having to wait for the sale of an asset can pose an additional risk if the price of the asset decreases while waiting to liquidate
Refers to an investor's ability to sell an investment as a means of payment or easily convert it to cash without risk of loss of nominal value
The ability of an insurer to convert its assets into cash to pay claims if necessary (G)
A company's ability to meet current obligations with cash or other assets that can be quickly converted to cash
the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
The ease with which an asset can be sold and turned into cash A house cannot be easily redeemed for cash A blue chip stock is very liquid because there are many investors who want to buy or sell them
The ability of an asset to quickly be converted into cash Generally, the greater the number of buyers and sellers of a particular asset, the more liquid it is considered to be
The ability of the market in a particular security to absorb a reasonable amount of buying or selling at reasonable price changes Liquidity is one of the most important characteristics of a good market
(1) The ability of a bank or business to meet its current obligations; (2) the quality that makes an asset quickly and readily convertible into cash
how quickly an asset (any item of value that you own) can be turned into cash In other words, you don't have to wait until a certain date or pay a penalty to withdraw your money
The ease with which an investment can be converted into cash Shares in a fund are generally considered highly liquid investments because they can be sold on any business day for their then current value (which may be more or less than an investor's original cost)
The ability of an investment to be easily converted into cash with little or no loss of money or time You would say that investment in property is illiquid, because it takes time and money to sell, but funds in a savings account are highly liquid
A high level of trading activity, allowing buying and selling with minimum price disturbance Also, a market characterized by the ability to buy and sell with relative ease
In finance, a company's liquidity is the amount of cash or liquid assets it has easily available. The company maintains a high degree of liquidity
The degree of ease with which your assets, such as stocks, real estate and U S Savings Bonds, may be converted into cash Because real estate is not easily converted into cash, it is said to have poor liquidity or to be illiquid
The easier it is to turn an asset into cash, the more liquid it is Shares are very liquid as they can be sold any weekday at any brokerage Works of art and homes are not nearly as liquid because you need to find an interested buyer Since every buyer needs a seller and vice versa, penny shares, which are very thinly traded, are more illiquid than larger capitalisation shares
In economics, the premium that holders of wealth demand for exchanging ready money or bank deposits for safe, nonliquid assets such as government bonds. As first used by John Maynard Keynes, liquidity preference referred to the demand for money as an asset. He hypothesized that the amount of money held for this purpose would vary inversely with the rate of interest. Post-Keynesian analysis of liquidity preference has identified other factors that influence the demand for money, including income levels and the yields of various forms of wealth