All content Archive | May 2018

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May 31st
- Other people are finally coming around to our way of thinking
- Prepare your portfolio for the return of inflation
- A dip in the oil price could be very bullish for stockmarkets
May 30th
- ADR
- AIM
- Alpha
- Altman Z Score
- Amortisation
- Annuity
- Arbitrage
- The euro crisis returns as Italy's establishment strikes back
- Auditor
- Three long-term reasons to be bullish on gold
May 29th
- Backwardation
- Balance of payments
- Baltic Dry Index
- Bank of England
- B/C share scheme
- Bernanke put
- Beta
- Bid-offer spread
- Big Bang
- Bond auction
- Women at the top: a new fund betting on the link between gender diversity and higher returns
- Bond duration
- Bond rating
- Bond vigilantes
- Bond yields
- Book value
- Bottom-up investing
- An Italian euro exit may just have moved a little bit closer
- Bovespa
- Break even
- Buyouts and buyins
May 28th
- CAC-40
- Capital adequacy
- Capital asset pricing model (CAPM)
- Capital expenditure (Capex)
- Capital ratio
- Carry trade
- Cash conversion
- Cash flow
- Chapter 11
- Clearing house
- Closet tracker funds
- Coco bonds
- Cognitive bias
- Commodity forwards
- Compound interest
- Contagion
- Contango
- Contingent liability
- Continuation vote
- Contracts for difference
- Convertible bonds
- Convertible rights
- Coppock indicator
- Correlation
- Cost of capital
- Cost of equity
- Cost/income ratio
- Country's current account
- Cov-lite
- Covered bonds
- Credit default swap
- Credit event
- Credit rating
- Workplace perks are nice, but nothing beats more cash
- Credit spread
- Currency peg
- Currency risk
- Current account surplus/deficit
- Cyclical stocks
- Cyclically adjusted p/e ratio (Cape)
May 27th
- Daily repricing
- Dark liquidity pools
- DAX
- Deal-for-equity swaps
- Debt swap
- Debt to equity ratio
- Debtor and creditor days
- Defensive stocks
- Deflation
- Deleveraging
- Delta One
- Depositary receipt
- Depreciation
- What is a derivative?
- Dilution
- Discount rate
- Discounted cash flow
- Discounting
- Dividend
- Disposition effect
- Dividend cover
- Dividend yield
- Diversification
- Dogs of the Dow
- Dow Theory
- Why I welcome Italy’s new populists
- Duration
May 26th
- Earnings per share
- Earnings yield
- Ebitda: MoneyWeek Glossary
- Economic indicators
- Economic moat
- Elliott wave theory
- Enterprise value
- Equity free cash-flow yield
- Equity risk premium
- ESG investing
- Eurobond
- EV to sales ratio
- EV/Ebit ratio
- EV/Ebita ratio
- What are exchange traded funds (ETFs)?
- Customs union: the Gordian knot of Brexit
- The charts that matter: the Fed hints at a more relaxed pace of rate hikes
May 25th
- Factor
- Free cash flow yield
- Fibonacci theory
- Final salary pensions and money purchase schemes
- Fiscal cliff
- Fiscal policy
- Fixed assets
- Flipping
- Floating rate note
- Foreign exchange reserves
- Free cash flow
- Free cash flow per share
- Free cash flow yield
- Free float
- FTSE 100
- Futures
- Ocado finally takes off
- The trouble with hedging the currency risk on your overseas investments
- How ASML is profiting from Moore’s law
- Brompton's electric commuter bike is a delight to ride
- Properties for sale with kitchen gardens
- Sustainable travel in Africa
- Caroline Frey: a committed vinous eco-warrior
- How to invest in the trends that are changing the world
- Share tips of the week
- The oil price is at the top of a slippery slope
- What Mad Men teaches us about dealing with market crashes
- Chart of the week: the euro is suffocating Italy
- The original Wolfe of Wall Street
- Can Mahathir Mohamad remake Malaysia?
- Naguib Sawiris: betting on a crisis; hoping for peace
- US earnings: as good as it gets
- Time to back British blue-chip stocks
- Robert Shiller: cryptocurrencies are doomed to failure
- Wee dram, massive price tag
- Dip your hooter into these mighty Bordeaux
- Money makers: a unique rags-to-riches tale
- Redrow: an attractive homebuilder
- If you'd invested in: IG Group and Moss Bros
- The boom in flexible offices
- Stuck in the ancien regime when inheriting pensions
- Finding mature mortgages
- Profit from mining euphoria
- Betting on politics: a bad bet on the Italian prime minister
- Maduro’s fake and fleeting victory
- Italy’s coalition could sink the euro
May 24th
- Gilt
- Gilt yield
- Global depository receipt (GDR)
- Going concern
- Goodwill
- Gordon’s growth model
- Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)
- Greenspan put
- Gross margin
- How to cash in on the boom in cloud computing
- The EEA: an imperfect but easy way to "take back control"
- Dambisa Moyo: inequality, growth, and the failure of liberal democracy
- A simple lesson from Turkey for investors: rising authoritarianism is bearish
May 23rd
- Handle
- Hang Seng index
- Hedonic accounting
- Hostile takeover
- Index-linked gilts
- Index fund
- Indices
- ISA: Individual Savings Account
- Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA)
- Initial public offering (IPO)
- When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy
- Interest cover
- Interest rate swap
- Internal rate of return
- Inverted yield curve
- Investment trusts
- The great buy-to-let sell up
- ISEQ
- Gold looks a better bet than UK property – here’s why
May 22nd
- Junk bonds
- Italy is testing Mario Draghi to step in and do “whatever it takes”
May 21st
- Keynesian economics
- Kospi
- Leverage
- Leveraged buyout
- Libor and the OIS
- Like-for-like sales
- Limited company
- Loan-to-value ratio
- Long / short equity
- Long-term refinancing operations (LTRO)
- Low volatility
- One area of financial markets where ETFs could prove very disruptive
- Beware the secret pension transfer that could leave you with nothing
May 20th
- M&A arbitrage
- Margin
- Margin account
- Margin of safety
- Margin trading
- Mark to model
- Market cap weighting
- Market capitalisation
- Market makers
- Market neutral funds
- Marking to market
- Maturity transformation
- Mean reversion
- Mean, median and mode
- Mezzanine finance
- Minority interest
- Misery index
- Modified Altman Z score
- Monetary policy
- Monetisation
- Money laundering
- Money markets
- Money multiplier
- Money supply
- Monoline
- Moving average
- Iran sanctions: Trump’s biggest gamble yet
May 19th
- Multiple compression
- Naked option writing
- Naked shorting
- Nation's current account
- Net asset value (NAV)
- Net working capital
- Nikkei 225
- Nil-paid rights
- Nominal value of a bond
- Tax cuts: the Laffer Curve strikes again
- Nominee account
- OCF (ongoing charges figure)
- Option
- Non-domicile
- The charts that matter: the end of an era
May 18th
- Off Exchange (OFEX)
- Off-balance-sheet finance
- Open & closed end funds
- Open-ended investment company (OEIC)
- Operating leverage
- Operational gearing
- Opportunity cost
- Optionality
- Book in the news: a lively account of a turbulent relationship
- High stakes in Asian waters
- What Babylon Revisited teaches you about stockmarket crashes
- Out of the money
- Higher oil prices are here to stay. Here’s why, and what to buy
- Output gap
- Over the counter (OTC)
- Overweight and underweight
- Betting on politics: who will win the Lewisham East by-election?
- North Korea wavers over nuclear talks
- Trump’s baffling trade U-turn
- Ocado’s surge shows what happens when a hated asset springs a surprise
- BT’s fall from grace
- Five questions for... Christoph Rieche, CEO, iwoca
- If your broker goes bust, you may have to pay to get your shares back
- The finest still xarello I have ever tasted
- Become a DIY biotech venture capitalist
- Small business owners should plan for a new digital tax regime
- Properties for sale with libraries
- Anneke van den Broek: a love of pets inspired a new start
- Three private paradise islands
- If you'd invested in: Bovis Homes and Crest Nicholson
- Three market-leading firms with growth potential
- Book of the week: central bankers and how to hold them to account
- New protection for tenants and leaseholders
- Steve Eisman: beware Canada's property bubble
- The supercar that won’t cost the Earth
- Asos: setting the trend when it comes to savings
- Chart of the week: who will suffer most in a trade war?
- Bond ETFs get active
- Share tips of the week
- Corporate bonds: where the next financial crisis will start
- There’s no need to flee emerging markets
- Three apps to save you money
May 17th
- Pairs trade
- Payback period
- PIK note
- Piotroski score
- Placing
- Plaza Accord
- Pound cost averaging
- Preference share
- Price elasticity
- Iran sanctions won’t change the oil game
- Price/book ratio
- Populists take power in Italy – what does that mean for the markets?
- Price to cash flow ratio
- Price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio
- Price to sales ratio
- Price/earnings (P/e) ratio
- Prime broker
- Private equity
- Price is everything when it comes to investing
- Recovery stocks – boost your wealth and your ego
- Want to profit from a gold rush? Invest in the picks and shovels
- Private finance initiative (PFI) / public-private partnership (PPP)
- Profit warning
- Prop trading
- Public sector net cash requirement (PSNCR)
- Purchasing power parity
- Put option
- Puts and calls
- This could be the end of the longest-running trend in your financial lifetime
- Picks and shovels
May 16th
- Q ratio
- Quantitative easing (QE)
- The oil price is going to keep rising – here's how to profit
- Real and nominal
- Real interest rate
May 15th
- Recession
- Redemption yield
- Repo
- Resistance points
- Return on capital
- Return on capital employed (ROCE)
- Return on equity
- Return on invested capital (ROIC)
- What is a rights issue?
- Risk-free rate
- Risk premium
- Italy is not this year’s problem – but it could be a big deal in 2019
- Will Brexit be good or bad for Britain’s small firms?
May 14th
- S&P 500 index
- Sale and leaseback
- Secular trend
- Securitisation
- Segregated fund
- Shadow banking
- Share buyback
- Share options
- Short squeeze
- Short sterling future
- Short selling
- SIPP
- SIV (structured investment vehicle)
- Smart beta
- Sovereign wealth fund
- Special drawing rights
- Spread
- Spread betting
- Stability and growth pact
- Stagflation
- Stamp duty
- Standard deviation
- Stock overhang
- What is a stock split?
- Stop-loss
- Subordinated debt
- Swap rate
- Swaps
- A very simple investment tip that you should never forget
- Synthetics
- Taiex
- A foolproof way to avoid inheritance tax. Or is it?
May 13th
- Tangible common equity
- Tangible book value per share
- Target 2
- Tier-one capital
- Time value of money
- Total expense ratio
- Tracking error
- Trade surplus
- Trailing stop-loss
- Treasuries
- Treasury stock
- True and fair value
- Property crowdfunding: should you become a virtual landlord?
May 12th
- Get set for another football financial record
- Utilities
- The charts that matter: some respite from the rising dollar
- Underwriting
May 11th
- Value at risk (VAR)
- Velocity of money
- Vendor finance
- Vertical integration
- Vix (volatility index)
- Volatility
- The art market gets giddier
- What The Taming of The Shrew tells us about the equity risk premium
- A rosé that tastes as good as it looks
- Unreliable central bankers are leaving investors bamboozled
- WACC
- Oculus Go: a cheaper entry into the world of VR
- Chart of the week: the stroll of the makers
- Duck the buy-to-let tax change
- Australia's record run of economic growth may finally be coming to an end
- Impressive results from HgCapital
- Alan Greenspan: US economy is “out of whack”
- Alumasc: a cheap stock in a tough market
- Expect more US interest-rate rises
- Linda Pilkington: the sweet smell of scented-candle success
- Why company mergers usually fail
- Turkey’s economic goose may be cooked
- If you'd invested in: Hunting and Exillon Energy
- Renaud Laplanche: the sailor who revolutionised banking
- Three stocks to give your profits a far-from-cosmetic boost
- Investors rush for the exits in Argentina
- CYBG's big bid for Virgin Money
- Pension withdrawals: an emergency best avoided
- Share tips of the week
- Doomsday has been postponed for the markets
- Stop building on England’s green and pleasant land
May 10th
- Warrants
- Wholesale money markets
- Withholding tax
- Working capital
- Don’t unplug the TV – old media will have the last laugh yet
- Reasonable ideas and unkeepable promises
- The weakest link in the UK housing market right now
- How DIY investing platforms are changing the world of investment trusts
May 9th
- Yield curve
- Yield on cost
- Yield spread
- How Exo is using technology to democratise investment
- Rising wages may bring surprises in Japan
- Why investors should be grateful for short-sellers
May 8th
- Z score
- Zero
- Why the oil price is likely to remain high and rising
- Theresa May’s Brexit is like “being trapped on a burning platform”
May 7th
- This mania for mergers is not how capitalism is meant to be
May 6th
- Expect these five mega-deals next
May 5th
- TSB’s computer meltdown
- The charts that matter: the cracks start to show as the dollar squeeze continues
May 4th
- Argentina’s woes show that faith alone will no longer prop up markets
- Book in the news: riveting bestseller exposes the real Trump
- Book of the week: Finding quality in the stock market
- The flaws in the Chinese growth model
- The robot revolution gathers pace
- Britain’s shrine to football desecrated
- The finest St-Jo Blanc I have ever tasted
- Bond yields give mixed messages
- Money makers: Bob Dylan’s dream whiskey
- Big tech stocks bounce back from crisis
- Converted properties on the market
- If you’d invested in: Genus and SDL
- Oil-price surge threatens global growth
- Don’t let Facebook’s woes put you off technology stocks
- What Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis can teach you about compound interest
- Terry Gou’s relentless race for profits
- Chart of the week: the long but lacklustre US recovery
- Five questions for… Barney Hussey-Yeo, founder and CEO of Cleo
- Greek economy staggers to its feet
- Forever young in Madrid
- Share tips of the week
- How to claim against TSB
- Trying times for buy-to-let landlords
- Painfully slow pension transfers
- Land Rover Defender: the British classic that refuses to die
- Beware the money-mule scam targeting students
- Alliance Trust turns over a new leaf
- Jeffrey Gundlach: gold to explode
- Don’t buy the bubbles
- How the left-behind took back control in Preston
- Betting on politics: the hottest markets
- Trump delays EU tariffs at the 11th hour
- The customs union fight
- Trump’s bluster brings nuclear breakthrough
- May under renewed fire
May 3rd
- Six of the best wines for summer drinking
- Shared suffering in house prices
- The vultures are circling over the corpse of corporate Britain…
- Has the Fed really turned hawkish? Or is it just an act?
May 2nd
- Sterling has taken a pounding – but I’m looking to buy back in
May 1st
- Tax the living, not the dead
- M&A deals are being done faster than ever – that’s not a good sign