Stock Market

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

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

Learn what a margin call stands for in financial terms.

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.

A period of time that starts with the first day of the current calendar year and ends with today.

An index published each month by the Office for National Statistics, which measures the level of retail prices in the UK. Cash flows on all index-linked gilts are linked to the RPI.

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

Find out what is the definition of the S&P 500 index.

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