INDEX OF FINANCIAL TERMS


Assets

Balance of Payment
Base Interest rates
Bear
Bear Market

Bid
Board of Directors
Bond
Bond certificate
Boom
Broker
Bull
Bull Market


Capital
Commission
Commodity
Commodity Future
Company
Corporation
Crash
Credit
Creditor
Currency


Debased
Deficit
Demand
Deposit
Depression
Deregulated
Derivative
Dividend
Dow Jones

Economics
Economy
Equity
European Currency Unit
European Monetary Union
Exchange Rate Mechanism


Financial Times Stock Exchange 100-share Index
      (FT-SE') (Footsie)
Flotation (listing, go public, seek a quotation)
Foreign Currency Reserves
Future demand
Future

Gilt-edged securities (Gilts, Government stocks)
Gross Domestic Product

Hang Seng Index
Hedging

Inflation
Interest
Interest rate
Investor
Invisible earnings
Jobber

Listed
Limited Liability
Liquid assets
Liquidate
Liquidated Assets
Liquidation
Liquidator
Liquidity ratio


Market-makers
Merger
Monetary base
Money
Money market
Money supply
Monopoly
Mortgage
Multinational

National Income
Nationalized
Nikkei Dow

Option
Portfolio
Price
Primary commodities
Private sector
Privatized

Public Sector
Public Sector Borrowing Requirements
Recession
Recommended retail price
Reserve ratio
Retail price index
Return

Securities
Share
Share index
Shareholder
Spread
Stock Exchange
Stocks
Surplus
Supply
Swaps

Takeover
Transfer payments

Underlying commodity

Wage/price spiral