What is 'hypothesis testing'? Definition & meaning

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American Depository Receipts (ADRs)

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

index-linked gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is as opposed to a conventional gilt, where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms.

Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

Free Trade

The other free trade. International trade in which countries allow goods to flow across their borders without imposing import or export taxes.

Geometric Mean Return

A way of calculating compound returns on an investment or savings over a set period of time.

Income statement

A summary of a company's income and expenses over a set period of time.

Synthetic ETFs

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

Capital

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Accrued interest

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt

Hypothesis Testing