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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Limit order

Learn what a limit order is and how to use it to make the most of your portfolio.
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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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Technical Analysis

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.
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Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)

A collection of investments, pooled into a single fund that can be bought and sold on a stock exchange.
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Key Information Document (KID)

A document issued by an investment fund to help investors determine if it's the right fund for them.
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Bed & ISA

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works
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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.
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Coupon

Also called a dividend, this is the fixed annual interest paid to gilt holders. It’s usually paid in two equal, semi-annual instalments and expressed as a percentage of the nominal value of the gilt.
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Securities

Bonds and stocks.
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