Year to Date (YTD)

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.

We look at what earnings per share mean and how to calculate it

A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.

A debt instrument issued by the UK government with a maturity of less than one year.

Learn what financial capital means

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

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

What's the base rate?

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