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Interest Rate

Interest Rate

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

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

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52-week high/low

The highest, or lowest, price a share has traded at in a passing year.
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Retail Prices Index (RPI)

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.
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Zero coupon bonds

What is a zero coupon bond?
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Forward pricing

Mutual funds are traded on a forward pricing basis, meaning the price you see will be different to the price you may trade at.
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Synthetic ETFs

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

A collective investment scheme the investors pay money into in exchange for units. The money is invested in a diversified portfolio of assets.
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Dividends

Find out what dividends are and how they can contribute to the growth of your investment portfolio.
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Quantitative easing

Find out what quantitative easing is and how central banks use this monetary measure to encourage economic growth.
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Xetra

A trading venue operated by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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