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Spot Rate
Spot Rate
The currency exchange rate a bank quotes, valid with immediate effect.
The currency exchange rate a bank quotes, valid with immediate effect.
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American Depository Receipt (ADRs)
Tradeable assets that let Americans invest in overseas stocks using US laws and dollars.
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Securities
Bonds and stocks.
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NYSE
The world's largest stock exchange. Wall St HQ.
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Venture Capital
A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.
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Ponzi Scheme
A form of fraud designed to lure new investors, and pays the earlier backers by using the new investors' money.
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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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Base rate
What's the base rate?
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Arithmetic Mean
The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.
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Bond
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