Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

The official document a company publishes before selling shares to the public. Long, detailed, and worth a read.

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.

A return calculated over the time period invested, that excludes extraneous elements, such as deposits to and withdrawals from the investment accounted.

Mutual funds and investment trusts are priced on their net asset value (NAV).

A street in New York that became a figure of speech for the financial markets of the US.

The data or information that is likely to impact a company's stock price.

The difference between a company's revenue and the cost to produce its goods/services, divided by revenue.

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