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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
African Development Bank. A development finance organization based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Its aim is to reduce poverty and promote social development among its regional members. www.afdb.org
Industry:Financial services
Called some time after end of the financial year, shareholders are invited to vote acceptance of the company’s annual report, balance sheet and final dividend. Companies often use the meeting to tell shareholders about corporate business prospects in the early months of the new financial year.
Industry:Financial services
UK market for smaller or high-risk companies that do not qualify for a full listing on the London Stock Exchange.
Industry:Financial services
A technical analysis tool that measures the rate of rise or fall in prices in terms of a percentage price rise or fall over a set period. Buy signals are interpreted by a sufficiently fast rate of increase while sell signals are indicated by a fast rate of decrease.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of stock returns, alpha measures the risk-adjusted performance of a security or fund. It is the return on a security in excess of what would be predicted by a risk/return model.
Industry:Financial services
An option which can be exercised at any time during the life of the contract, up to and including the expiry date, in contrast to European options which can be exercised only on the expiry date. A variation, called the ‘semi-American’, is where options can be exercised on only a set number of dates before expiry.
Industry:Financial services
Roughly equivalent to Ltd. or PLC., this is a Norwegian term for a company.
Industry:Financial services
A UK trade association of 184 wealth management and broking firms who, at more than 500 sites across the UK, Ireland and beyond, provide services to private investors.
Industry:Financial services
Organization aimed at promoting regional trade and economic co-operation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Industry:Financial services
