Profitability and Proprietary trading: Difference between pages

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Trading by a financial institution on its own behalf, rather than acting primarily as an intermediary.

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+Trading by a financial institution on its own behalf, rather than acting primarily as an intermediary.
-A relative measure of profit, designed to facilitate comparisons between different businesses and between different time periods.
-Often expressed in percentage terms, for example, Return on capital employed.
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-Profitability also means the general condition of earning profits, usually consistently, rather than being loss-making.
-For example, a return to profitability following an earlier period of losses.
 == See also ==
-* [[Drag]]
+* [[Capital]]
-* [[Gross profit margin]]
+* [[Commercial banks]]
-* [[Loss]]
+* [[Investment bank]]
-* [[Net profit margin]]
+* [[Merchant bank]]
-* [[Operating profit margin]]
+* [[Primary market]]
-* [[Profit]]
+* [[Proprietary]]
-* [[Ratio analysis]]
+* [[Secondary market]]
-* [[Return on capital employed]]
+* [[Security]]
-* [[Underlying]]