[30days] Business, Business and Business...

I have found a website from BBC news and actually learnt and revised some words form it as well!

• GDP - Gross Domestic Product. A measure of economic activity in a country, namely of all the services and goods produced in a year. There are 3 main ways of calculating GDP - through output, through income and through expenditure.
• Hedge fund - A private investment fund with a large, unregulated pool of capital and very experienced investors. It used a range of sophisticated strategies to maximise returns - including hedging, leveraging and derivatives trading.
• Hedging - Making an investment to reduce the risk of price fluctuations to the value of an asset.
• Bond - A debt security - or more simply an IOU. The bond states when a loan must be repaid and what interest the borrower (issuer) must pay to the holder. Banks and investors buy and trade bonds.
• Commodities - Commodities are products that, in their basic form, are all the same so it makes little difference from whom you buy them.
• Deflation - The downward price movement of goods and services.
• Leveraging - Leveraging, or gearing, means using debt to supplement investment.
• Warrants - A document entitling the bearer to receive shares, usually at a stated price.

Also the 2 podcasts I have listened to:

• Budget commentary
• Fairtrade

And an article from BBC news - Santander to shed 1,900 UK jobs

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