mark-to-market

See also: mark to market

English

Alternative forms

• mark to market

Noun

mark-to-market (countable and uncountable, plural mark-to-markets)

1. (finance, accounting, chiefly attributive) Assigning a value to an asset equal to the current market price of the asset or one calculated based on related standardised assets for which there is a market.
   • 2011, Mark Galant, Brian Dolan, Currency Trading For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 52:

     Mark-to-market is the calculation that shows your unrealized P&L based on where you could close your open positions in the market at that instant.

   • 2018, Mike Murphy, “Interview with Bill Kristol”, in Conversations with Bill Kristol‎^[1]:

     The only mark-to-market thing in politics is Election Day; everything else is hot air.

Synonyms

• MTM
• M2M