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carry definition - finance
The interest cost of financing securities. A positive carry occurs when the return from a security exceeds the financing cost. A negative carry occurs when the financing cost exceeds the return on the security that has been financed.

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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