mark-to-market

mark-to-market definition - finance
An accounting standard by which companies value their assets and liabilities on their balance sheet using the assetsÂ’ current market values. Traders in the futures industry also have to mark-to-market their books at the end of each day.

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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