Fundamentals

A summary of a company's finances, including its assets, liabilities and shareholder equity.

Tradeable assets that let Americans invest in overseas stocks using US laws and dollars.

Learn what a margin call stands for in financial terms.

What's the base rate?

An investment where, regardless of its legal form, the amount repayable to the retail investor is subject to fluctuations.

A period of time that starts with the first day of the current calendar year and ends with today.

Find out what quantitative easing is and how central banks use this monetary measure to encourage economic growth.

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms. This is as opposed to an index-linked gilt where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI).

An ETF that that reproduces the return of an index through the use of swaps.