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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 demand for goods and services in an economy. Everything that is consumed by households or governments, exported, or used as an investment good to produce other products. It comprises: consumption by households; investment spending by companies and households; local and central government spending on goods and services; demand for exports from overseas consumers and companies.
Industry:Financial services
Total exposure of a bank to any single customer for both spot and forward contracts.
Industry:Financial services
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 annualised 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 annualised 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
