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Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Product (PRIIP)

An investment where, regardless of its legal form, the amount repayable to the retail investor is subject to fluctuations.

Bond

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United States Dollar (USD)

The famous greenback our friends in the US use as currency.

Quantitative easing

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Maturity date

The date on which a gilt is redeemed and the gilt holder receives the repayment of the nominal amount and final dividend or coupon payment.

Leverage

A method of trading using borrowed money that usually involves a very high level of risk.

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.

NYSE

The world's largest stock exchange. Wall St HQ.

Beta

Learn what Beta stands for in finance.

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