What is a 'nominal amount'? Definition & meaning

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Interest Rate

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

Money weighted rate of return

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

Stock Market

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.

Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

Arithmetic Mean

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

Account balance

The amount of money a user has stored in a financial repository.

index-linked gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is as opposed to a conventional gilt, where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms.

Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)

A collection of investments, pooled into a single fund that can be bought and sold on a stock exchange.

Accounting standards

The rules a company follows when preparing financial statements.

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Nominal amount