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| FX |
Foreign Exchange. Generally refers to the Foreign Exchange, or Currency, Market or a particular Exchange Rate.
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| Face Value |
The displayed value on a bond also called principal or par value.
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| Fill or Kill (FOK) |
The fill or kill instruction goes along with your order saying that your order must immediately be filled in its entirety or cancelled.
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| Financial intermediary |
Specialist (bank, investment firm, online broker, etc.) that trades on a financial market on behalf of investors. The services provided by an intermediary depend on its status: order reception/transmission, trading, custody etc..
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| Fixed Income |
Bonds are regarded as fixed income investments. They obligate the borrower to pay the bond owner a fixed rate of interest during the term of the loan and to return the principal or face value when the loan matures, and a preferred shareholder would get a fixed dividend. A variety of institutions issue debt obligations, including governments and corporations.
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| Fixing |
Procedure in NTS (New Trading System) on the base of which prices are fixed.
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| Floor |
Level of partial capital protection below which the net asset value of a SGAM leveraged ETF may not fall during a rolling one-month period.
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| Fonds Commun de Placement (FCP) |
Unincorporated collective investment scheme. FCPs issue units that give the investor a right of collective ownership but no voting rights, i.e. the investor is a unit-holder not a shareholder. The administrative, accounting and financial aspects of an FCP are handled by a single management company that is entitled to delegate its tasks.
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| Fortnight period (Euronext Brussels) |
Period of two weeks on the Forward Market.
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| Forward Period (Euronext Brussels) |
Section of the First Market on which most liquid financial instruments ate negotiated. This market is split up into two segments on the base of the liquidity or the negotiability: semi-continuous and continuous. On the semi-continuous segment, two price fixings a day are possible. On the continuous segment, continuous price fixings are possible from 10.00 a.m. until 4.30 p.m. The word "Forward" refers to the settlement: all exchange orders from a same fortnight period are settled within four days of the carry over day.
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| France's central bank (Banque de France) |
Banque de France
39, rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs 75001 Paris
Phone: +33 (0)1 42 92 42 92
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| Front-end load |
See Subscription fee.
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| Futures contract |
Financial product through which a buyer and seller undertake to exchange a particular quantity of a commodity or financial instruments at an agreed price on a stipulated future date. Also known as a future.
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