What is 'investment return'? Definition & meaning

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Fundamentals

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

Oligopoly

A situation in which a market or industry is controlled by a small group of companies.

Interest Rate

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

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.

Ponzi Scheme

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

Income statement

A summary of a company's income and expenses over a set period of time.

Running yield

The annual interest payment (dividend) divided by the current market price of a bond.

Bull market

We explain what a 'bull market' means

Volatility

A measure of how much the prices of an asset or index vary over time.

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