Reference: Bid and offer in the securities or auction context
Reference information:
oferta sf
1 (=ofrecimiento) offer
2 (Com, gen) offer , (para contrato, concurso) tender, (en subasta) bid, (Econ) supply
3 (=regalo) gift, present
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Oferta is lexically translated/defined as either offer or supply. In the over-the-counter securities market, the bid is the highest price that buyers want to pay and the ask (or offer) is the lowest price that the owner of a security wants to sell. These prices are published in the dailies as the bid/offer or bid/ask quotes. The bid price is always lower than the ask (or offer) price.
Some confusion arises when in an auction context when one tenders or bids, or formally "offers" to buy, which is actually a bid. The use of the general term "offer" in this context somewhat causes confusion. A distinction is to be made between bid (from the buyer) and offer (from the seller), particularly when we are talking about the securities market.
Definitions of basic terms:
BID
1. An offer or proposal of a price.
2. The amount offered or proposed: They lost the contract because their bid was too high.
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BID PRICE
The price at which a market maker will buy a security which could be shares, warrants or, in the case of unit trusts, the price at which units will be bought back from their holders. Bid prices for shares are quoted on the London Stock Exchange SEAQ system, and displayed live on brokers computer screens. The prices are only firm for quantities within the normal market size of a stock, limiting the ability to sell a large quantity of shares in, for example, a small AIM stock.
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Related concept: Bid-offer Spread
The difference between the selling price and the purchase price for investments.
When you ask a broker what price the shares of a company are trading at in the market, he will quote two prices: the bid price is the price at which you can sell your shares, and the offer price is the price at which you can buy them. The first is always lower than the second, and the difference between them is the spread.
Market makers, who act like wholesalers in the stock market, make their profit from the spread - buying shares at the bid price and selling them at the offer price
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OFFER PRICE (Precio de oferta)
Generally, the price at which securities are offered for sale, but more specifically, the price at which a new issue of shares is offered to the public, the price at which a market maker offers to sell shares, or the price at which units can be purchased from an institution in a unit trust.
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TENDER
1. A formal offer, as:
1. Law. An offer of money or service in payment of an obligation.
2. A written offer to contract goods or services at a specified cost or rate; a bid.
2. Something, especially money, offered in payment.
http://www.answers.com/topic/tender
"Offer" is the basic general term in this group:
To tender is to offer formally: tendered her respects; tendered my resignation.
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