Interest Rate

A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.

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A collection of investments, pooled into a single fund that can be bought and sold on a stock exchange.

The total price payable on the purchase of a gilt. It’s calculated as the clean price plus accrued interest.

What's the base rate?

A situation in which one person's gain is another's loss.

The moment new shares are officially admitted to the stock exchange and open to trading for everyone.

Trading outside of a stock exchange's opening hours.

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