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

Tradeable assets that let Americans invest in overseas stocks using US laws and dollars.

Going public without the traditional IPO. Existing shares, straight onto the exchange, no new money raised.

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.

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

A situation in which one person's gain is another's loss.

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.

The annual interest payment (dividend) divided by the current market price of a bond.