Markup and Decrease

noun

• The amount added to the cost to determine the asking price.
• Detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e. G. Underlining words that are to be set in italics. ).

When you buy securities over the counter (OTC) from a broker/dealer's inventory, you pay a' Markup', typically a percentage of the selling price, over and above the amount it cost the broker/dealer to purchase the security. The amount of this markup, or spread, depends in part on the demand for that security or others like it. For example, if investors are buying up certain types of bonds, a broker/dealer may increase the markup for bonds in that category. To determine the markup you're paying, and whether it is in line with the 5% guideline set by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), you must either ask the broker/dealer about the markup amount or compare the prices (including the markups) that a number of broker/dealers quote you for the same security. The differences in price generally reflect the differences in markups.

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.