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Income statement

Income statement

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

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

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Venture Capital

A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.
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Technical Analysis

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.
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Yield to maturity (YTM)

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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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Base rate

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Conventional gilts

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).
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