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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
A fund is actively managed when securities selection is based on specific ideas and research about individual companies or financial instruments. The overall composition of the fund mirrors decisions made at the micro level. It is the opposite of passive management in which a fund aims to match the performance of a market or index, and its constituents mirror the composition of that market or index.
Industry:Financial services
Indicators that show where an economy is in the business cycle. Activity indicators include industrial production, capacity utilization and volume of retail sales. See also Business Cycle and Economic Indicators.
Industry:Financial services
Also called physicals. Refers to the physical commodities available for shipment, storage and manufacture. Actuals available for delivery are traded for cash on a spot or forward basis.
Industry:Financial services
A specialist in statistics and the mathematics of risk, often focused on insurance risks and premiums.
Industry:Financial services
Two companies are affiliated when one owns less than a majority of the voting stock of the other or if both are subsidiaries of a third company. See also Associate, Subsidiary.
Industry:Financial services
Dealing taking place after the official close of business on the trading floor of an investment exchange.
Industry:Financial services
Bank appointed by members of an international lending syndicate to protect lenders’ interests during the life of a loan. See also Syndicate.
Industry:Financial services
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
