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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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Balance sheet

A summary of a company's finances, including its assets, liabilities and shareholder equity.

Value Investing

The art of buying shares which trade below their value, according to the analysis of the value investor.

Hypothesis Testing

A mathematical test used to determine whether a claim is true or false.

SPAC

Find our what a SPAc or special purpose acquisition company is.

Investment Return

The amount of money made or lost from an investment. Usually expressed as a percentage.

Equity

The amount of money a company would be left with by subtracting its liabilities from the value of its assets.

Geometric Mean Return

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

Base rate

What's the base rate?

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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