Stocks & securities

Stocks & securities

Stocks trades, exchanges and tools etc.

Industry: Financial services; Investment

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bond market

Financial services; Stocks & securities

The environment in which the issuance and trading of debt securities occurs. The bond market primarily includes government-issued securities and corporate debt securities, and facilitates the ...

put option

Financial services; Stocks & securities

An option contract giving the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell a specified amount of an underlying security at a specified price within a specified time.

Ethical funds

Financial services; Stocks & securities

Funds which only invest in companies which meet their requirements e.g. for treatment of workers and producers, CSR involvement, carbon footprint etc.

Dilution

Financial services; Stocks & securities

When earnings from common stock are reduced owing to additional shares being issued or when convertible securities are converted.

Compound interest

Financial services; Stocks & securities

Earning interest on an asset, and reinvesting those savings for greater returns in the future.

Bonds

Financial services; Stocks & securities

An investment into a company or organization with a fixed interest rate and period for repayment. The investor becomes a creditor of the organization and has a higher claim on the assest of the ...