Financial lexicon
The financial world has it own vocabulary.
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- Earnings per share (EPS)
- Net profit divided by the number of securities comprising the capital. It is primarily used to calculate the PER (price/earnings ratio), and discover the amount of earnings for each share. This provides a means of comparing the earnings over several years when the number of shares has been changed.
- Equity fund
- An equity fund invests primarily in shares of one or several countries. Other funds are limited to one or more sectors and are then called "sectoral funds".
Funds can be managed actively or passively. Funds with a passive management follow the evolution of an index on one or the other market.
- Euro
- Single currency of most of the EU Member States. 1 Euro is worth 40,3399 Belgian Francs.
- Euro NM (New Market)
- Network of European high potential securities markets, currently comprising five exchanges: the Nouveau Marché Paris, the Euro NM Belgium, the Neuer Market in Frankfurt, the NMAX in Amsterdam and the Nuovo Mercato in Milan.
- Euroland
- Term used to describe the Euro zone countries.
- Exercise date
- Date when a buyer can exercise an option.
- Exercise of an option or a warrant
- A holder's decision to take up an option to buy.
- Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)
- Exceptional meeting of shareholders designed to approve proposals for amending articles of association, capital increases or reductions, agreeing to mergers or the break-up of a company … . Decisions are adopted by a two-thirds majority.
