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| Back Office |
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| Bank or brokerage house departments not directly involved in sales or trading. Support the trading of the securities including trade confirmation and settlement, record keeping, and regulatory compliance. |
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| Base Rate |
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| Annual interest rate on which lending charges are calculated by British banks. |
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| Basis Point |
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| Usually one hundredth of a percentage point (0.01 per cent), used in quoting movements in interest rates or yields on securities. |
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| Bear |
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| Someone who believes or speculates that a particular security or the securities in a market will decline in value is referred to as a bear. |
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| A bear market is a market in which a group of securities falls in price or loses value over a period of time. A prolonged bear market may result in a decrease in market prices by 20% or more. A bear market in stocks may be due to investor’s expectations of economic trends; in bonds a bear market results from rising interest rates. |
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