buying power

buying power definition - finance
The amount of money that is available to fund a purchase. Often people will say that the dollar doesnÂ’t have the buying power it did many years ago. The term also is used in the context of taking all the cash held in a brokerage account and purchasing securities on margin.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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