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Clean price

Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

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Collective investment scheme

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52-week high/low

The highest, or lowest, price a share has traded at in a passing year.
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Rate of Return

Profit on an investment, expressed as a percentage of the investment.
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Dividends

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Stock Exchange

A physical/digital place where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities.
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Volatility

A measure of how much the prices of an asset or index vary over time.
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Coupon

Also called a dividend, this is the fixed annual interest paid to gilt holders. It’s usually paid in two equal, semi-annual instalments and expressed as a percentage of the nominal value of the gilt.
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NYSE

The world's largest stock exchange. Wall St HQ.
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Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.
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