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Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.

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Money weighted rate of return

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

The amount of money a company would be left with by subtracting its liabilities from the value of its assets.
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Money laundering

A method of moving money obtained illicitly through the financial system so it can be used legally.
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Accrued interest

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt
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Conventional gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms. This is as opposed to an index-linked gilt where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI).
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Yield

Income from an investment as a percentage of its current price.
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Quantitative easing

Find out what quantitative easing is and how central banks use this monetary measure to encourage economic growth.
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Oligopoly

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