Financial lexicon
The financial world has it own vocabulary.
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- Narrow market
- This is a market where trading is thin and any operation can affect the market quite considerably.
- Nasdaq
- Second largest stock exchange in the United States (after the New York Stock Exchange and ahead of Amex) which primarily lists high-tech companies.
- Nasdaq Europe
- European version of Nasdaq (US market for high-tech securities). Based in Brussels, the market currently comprises rapidly expanding companies.
- Net assets
- Book value of all a company's resources minus liabilities.
- New shares
- Shares issued as part of a capital increase. These shares continue to be described thus until they are considered as old ones.
- Nikkei
- Index comprising the 225 most important securities on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
- Nominal (or par)
- The value that appears on the instrument (bond,...) generally corresponding to an amount of money that has to be repaid on the maturity of a bond (in this case the bond is said to be repayable at par ultimately). This nominal value and the nominal rate is used to determine the amount of interest paid.
- Nominal or face rates
- Rates linked to a bond and set during its issuance. This provides a means of determining the amount of interest paid to the bond bearer.
- NYSE
- Abbreviation of New York Stock Exchange, which is the leading stock exchange in the United States. Companies listed on this market are usually the most important ones in the United States.
