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Finance Dictionary and Glossary of Investment Terms
Bid
Definition 1.
e price a potential buyer is willing to pay for a security. Sometimes also used in the context of takeovers where one corporation is bidding for (trying to buy) another corporation. In trading, we have the bid-ask spread which is the difference between what buyers are willing to pay and what sellers are asking for in terms of price.
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Definition 2.
1. An offer made by an investor, trader, or dealer to buy a security.2. The price at which a market maker is willing to buy a security.
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Definition 4.
The price at which someone is willing to buy a security. This is what you get when you sell (as opposed to the asked price, which is what you hoped to get). In over-the-counter trading, securities dealers profit from the spread between bid and asked prices.
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