BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Limit
- an amount above or below which a broker is not to conclude the purchase or sale of a security for the client who specifies it
Wiktionary Definition for: Limit
- To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
- Ex: ''We need to limit the power of the executive.''
- Ex: ''I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.''
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- Ex: ''There are several existing limits to executive power.''
- Ex: ''Two drinks is my limit tonight.''
- math A value to which a sequence converges.
- Ex: ''The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.''
- math Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- Ex: ''Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.''
Additional Resources
- Geithner asks Congress for higher US debt limit
- By David Lawder of Reuters WASHINGTON - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally requested that Congress raise the $US12.1 trillion ($A14.44 trillion) statutory debt limit, saying that it could be breached as early as mid-October. "It is critically important that Congress act before the limit is reached so that citizens...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists
- A pair of physicists have shown that if processors continue to accelerate in accordance to Moore's Law, we'll hit the wall of faster processing in roughly 75 years. The curtain will eventually come down for silicon in today's manufacturing methods once engineers can no longer further shrink transistors and the...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Limit Feeding Concentrate Diets to Beef Cows as an Alternative to Feeding Hay
- Limit feeding may be limited to a small percentage of cattle producers in Oklahoma. Adoption is limited by the additional labor requirement, management skills, feed storage capacity, and the availability of feed bunks, feed delivery equipment, and a well-drained dry lot or sacrifice pasture. The cost effectiveness of limit feeding...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Limit Management With SAP for Banking
- In today's competitive global economy, banks must closely tie risk management to profitability. The SAP for banking set of solutions delivers enhanced limit management features that helps to measure, analyze, and control risk throughout an enterprise. This global limit solution is available practically around the clock and can handle calculations...
- White papers 2004-12-03
- Notes for a Contingent Claims Theory of Limit Order Markets
- This paper provides a road map for building a contingent claims theory of limit order markets grounded in a simple observation: limit orders are equivalent to a portfolio of cash-or-nothing and asset-or-nothing digital options on market order flow. However, limit orders are not conventional derivative securities: order flow is an...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Notice Of Credit Limit
- This template can be used to inform the customer about the credit limit. It mentions the existing credit limit and the credit limit of further order if credit limit exceeds.
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- Fannie Mae raises loan limit to $359,650.(Real Estate Outlook)(Federal National Mortgage Association)(Brief Article)
- Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source of financing for home mortgages, said it will apply new conforming loan limits to increase its single-family mortgage loan limit to $359,650 for 2005. As a result of the new loan limit, Fannie Mae estimates t Fannie Mae,...
- Research articles 2005-01-17
- USA GOVERNMENT DECIDES TO UNLOOSEN LIMIT OF COMPUTER EXPORT
- AsiaInfo Services 02-26-2002 USA Government Decides to Unloosen Limit of Computer Export CHINA, Feb 26, 2002 AsiaPort via COMTEX -- At present the government of Bush declares to unloosen the limit for American enterprises to export high-speed AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 2002-02-26
- WORLD BANK: CHINA SHOULD CANCEL UPPER LIMIT TO LENDING RATE
- AsiaInfo Services 02-19-2007 World Bank: China Should Cancel Upper Limit to Lending Rate BEIJING, Feb 19, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- The World Bank Group says that China should remove the upper limit on loan interest rate for the sustainable ...
- Research articles 2007-02-19
- OPEC: Still kicking?(petroleum producing countries agree to limit oil production)
- OPEC and several other oil producing companies have agreed to limit the amount of oil that they produce. The petroleum industry has suffered due to low prices and the production limit will raise prices. However, there is some chance that some nations willOPEC and several other oil producing companies have...
- Research articles 1999-03-27
- U.S. court upholds policy limit in reinsurer dispute.
- U.S. Court Upholds Policy Limit In Reinsurer Dispute In a rare instance of litigation between an insurer and its reinsurers, a U.S. circuit court has ruled that reinsurers are not liable to an insurer beyond their stated policy limit, whether or not U.S. Court Upholds...
- Research articles 1990-06-04
- Freddie Mac to limit growth of retained mortgages
- Freddie Mac has announced it will voluntarily limit the annual growth of its retained mortgage portfolio to no more than 2 percent above the level at June 30, 2001). Officials said the voluntary, temporary growth limit is in response to a request of the OFreddie Mac has announced it will...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- PALM OIL FUTURES CLOSE LIMIT UP ON DEBUT
- AsiaInfo Services 10-31-2007 Palm Oil Futures Close Limit up on Debut DALIAN, Oct 31, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Palm oil futures listed on Dalian Commodity Exchange on October 29, and most contracts closed limit-up. Except for the...
- Research articles 2007-10-31
- Environmental Agency Approves Raising Speed Limit in Houston Area.
- By Tony Freemantle, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 26--The state environmental quality commission Wednesday approved, as expected, a recommendation to suspend the 55 mph speed limit in the Houston area. Where the limit used to be 70...
- Research articles 2002-09-26
- Houston-Area Freeways to Lose Unpopular Speed Limit Starting This Week.
- By Tony Freemantle, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--The state highway department will start changing speed limit signs along area freeways within the week, officially ending the much maligned, politically unpopular 55 mph speed limit. On Monday,...
- Research articles 2002-11-05
- Progress on exemptions from USERRA's five-year limit
- LAW REVIEW NUMBER 42 In "Law Review Number 6" (September 1998), I explained that USERRA has a five-year limit on the duration of service. The limit is cumulative, but only so long as you are employed by or seeking re-employment with that particular civilian employer. When you start a new...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- No: debt-limit brinksmanship threatens America's economy
- There has been a lot of confusion recently about the debt limit and many people who should know better are suggesting ways the government could operate without an increase in that limit. It's time to clear up a few misconceptions: First, balancing the budget is a Clinton administration priority. Second,...
- Research articles 1995-11-06
- Limit awaits Wellington bid details.(Limit P.L.C., Wellington Underwriting P.L.C., acquisition)(Statistical Data Included)
- LONDON -- The board of Limit P.L.C. should soon learn whether Wellington Underwriting P.L.C. will make a firm offer for Limit, thus ending months of uncertainty about the future of the two groups. Regardless of the outcome of that situation, analysts say that more ...
- Research articles 2000-06-26
- Microsoft ditches Windows 7 beta download limit
- January 12, 2009 Computerworld Microsoft Corp. on Saturday ditched the download limit on Windows 7 beta, saying that users will be able to grab the preview through Jan. 24 -- even if the total exceeds the 2.5 million cap it had set earlier. The company also apologized for the stalled...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Advising Customers of Their Credit Limit
- In some companies, a credit limit can be defined this way: The credit limit is the maximum amount that we will ship to a customer without updating the credit file and making a decision about whether an increase is warranted. In other companies, a credit limit is something quite different....
- White papers 1995-01-01
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