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Basket (finance)
In
finance
, a
basket
is a
weighted
group of several
financial instruments
. The
purpose
could be for example
simultaneous
buying
or
selling
, for example during
program trading
.
Certain
specific
specialized
"baskets":
A
stock market index
is a basket for all the
securities
in a particular
exchange
.
A
market basket
is a basket for all the securities on a particular
market
.
A
combination
of
individual
assets
, used as an
underlying
of a
basket option
.