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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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Growth stocks

These are stocks in companies that are considered to be “growing”. These companies may be delivering new products and services, or entering new markets.
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Hypothesis Testing

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

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

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

What's the maturity value of a bond?
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Fundamentals

The data or information that is likely to impact a company's stock price.
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LSE

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

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