Interest Rate

What is a gilt?

What is a zero coupon bond?

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

The amount a lender charges for lending your money, or a borrower pays you for borrowing your money.

We look at what is a depository and what role they play in keeping markets work.

The concept that money you have now is more valuable than the same sum in the future.

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

Trading outside of a stock exchange's opening hours.

An index published each month by the Office for National Statistics, which measures the level of retail prices in the UK. Cash flows on all index-linked gilts are linked to the RPI.