The phrase "a nominal value" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts involving finance, economics, or measurements to refer to a value that is stated or expressed but may not reflect the actual value or worth.
Example: "The nominal value of the bond is $1,000, but its market value may fluctuate based on interest rates."
Alternatives: "a stated value" or "a face value".
Alliance Boots bought back some its own debt, principally mezzanine finance, with a nominal value of £191m.
It is also said to have recommended that all gifts since 1998 above a nominal value should be published.
Credit derivatives already have a nominal value of almost $1 trillion, up from around $100 billion five years ago.
For all married couples, the Senate version of this tax cut has a nominal value of $600 a year, or $3,600 in all, from now through 2006.
NAMA is acquiring loans with a nominal value of €73 billion, and the agency said in July it expected about a quarter of them would be income-producing.
By selling subprime assets to BlackRock that have a nominal value of around $22 billion for just $15 billion, the bank gives up a possible $7 billion gain down the road for the sake of security right now.
Selling Thyssen's 30.1% stake in Germany's third mobile-telephone network, E-Plus, would raise around DM3 billion, but other assets such as Thyssen's property portfolio, which has a nominal value of DM3 billion, would be more difficult to liquidate.
A hypothetical example of such a deal: a bank sells debt with a nominal value of $10 billion to a private-equity firm or consortium for $8 billion, lending the buyers $7 billion towards the price.
Britain did not want this outcomeExcept that for equities, and for issues of bonds with a nominal value of less than euro5,000 ($5,000), the issuer is robbed of choice.
FTR Holdings, a unit of Philip Morris, plans to pay Reemtsma Cigarrettenfabriken of Germany a minimum of 80 centavos a share with a nominal value of 10 cents each, or 8 pesos per 10 shares, for Reemtsma's 5.33percentt stake in Massalin Particulares, bringing its ownership to 100percentt.
So here is a global private market whose products, combined, have a nominal value roughly equal to the total size of the world economy's output in a year, and apparently no one in any government knows the full market's shape, distribution, or true vulnerabilities.
