BEST ASK Definition

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BEST ASK is the lowest quoted offer of all competing Market Makers to sell a particular stock at any given time.

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RESTRICTION CONTROL, in accounting, is one type of inference control over output from a database.  To prevent a user who has access only to summary information from inferring details of a particular record the user can see the results from only five or more records combined, not fewer than five records.

CLAIMS OUTSTANDING, in general, is the difference between claims against assets (liabilities) and claims settled/paid. Within the insurance industry it would be the difference between insurance claims filed and claims settled/paid.

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