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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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Stock Market

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.

Ponzi Scheme

A form of fraud designed to lure new investors, and pays the earlier backers by using the new investors' money.

Free Trade

The other free trade. International trade in which countries allow goods to flow across their borders without imposing import or export taxes.

Inflation

The increase in the prices of goods and services over time, and the process by which money loses its value.

Yield to maturity (YTM)

What is yield to maturity and why is it useful?

Wall Street

A street in New York that became a figure of speech for the financial markets of the US.

Quantitative easing

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

Money weighted rate of return

Learn what Money Weighted Rate of Return or MWRR stands for in finance.

Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

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