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United Kingdom-based news service and former financial market data provider that provides news reports from around the world to news media
Total supply of goods and services in the economy available to meet aggregate demand. The supply consists of domestically produced goods and imports.
Industry:Financial services
The All Ordinaries Share Price Index or ‘All Ords’ is the benchmark index for the Australian stock market. It is a capitalizationweighted index consisting of over 300 stocks. www.asx.com See also Capitalization-weighted Index.
Industry:Financial services
The reduction of principal or debt at regular intervals. This can be achieved via a purchase or sinking fund. The term is also used to describe the depreciation of fixed assets; the opposite of accretion. See also Depreciation.
Industry:Financial services
Generic term used to describe someone who analyses company data, economic data or price charts, in order to make trading recommendations.
Industry:Financial services
The comparison of the average level of a given rate, e.g. inflation, in the current year with the average in the previous year. The benefit of this measure is that it smoothes out unusually large or small changes that may have occurred for short periods during the year.
Industry:Financial services
An annualized rate plots the change in an indicator over the whole year if the latest monthly or quarterly figure is presumed to persist for the rest of the year. It is calculated by multiplying one month’s change by 12 to produce the annualized rate, or one quarter’s rate by four.
Industry:Financial services
A status report on the current condition of a company. Issued once a year for shareholders to examine before the annual general meeting.
Industry:Financial services
An investment that pays a given stream of income for a fixed period of time. Some annuities pay that income during the lifetime of the holder.
Industry:Financial services
US federal legislation to prevent business monopolies and restraint of free trade.
Industry:Financial services
The action of profiting from the correction of price or yield anomalies in markets. Often this will involve taking a position in one market or instrument and an offsetting position in another. As prices or yields move back into line, all positions may be profitably closed out. An arbitrageur is an individual or institution practising arbitrage.
Industry:Financial services
