Trading Basics
Balance of Payments
Also BoP. This is the difference between payments into or out of a country. It can be negative or positive and is used by traders in fundamental analysis.
Other Trading Basics
Book Building
When a new share is issued book building is the process institutions go through to gauge demand and therefore price.
This goes on before the share is available to trade on the exchange.
CAC40
Cotation Assistée en Continu.
The short name for the headline french index which includes 40 companies.
Convertible Stocks
A loan that the owner can convert to ordinary shares in that company, given a set of conditions defined in the original loan.
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