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Financial lexicon

Financial analysis

Analytical model using company accounts to assess activity and performance.

Financial analyst

Employee of a stockbroking firm or another financial intermediary responsible for studying companies, their performances and perspectives.

Fixed assets

All a company's resources due to be retained on a lasting basis. Fixed assets comprise three balance sheet items: intangible assets (goodwill,…), tangible assets (land, buildings,...) and financial assets (equity shares, loans…).

Fixing

Quotation system in opposition to the continuous quotation one. In the case of securities quoted by fixing, supply and demand come into contact with each other only once or twice a day.

Flat

Without a position (neither a buyer or seller).

Fondamentals

Series of factors for assessing the economic and financial health of a company. These assessment criteria feature items such as the balance sheet structure, the composition of the profit or loss, the level of liabilities. Market shares are included as well.

Forex

The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a worldwide decentralized over-the-counter financial market for the trading of currencies.
The foreign exchange market determines the relative values of different currencies.
It is the biggest financial market in the world and is open 24 hours a day, except over the weekend.

Fundamental analysis

Analytical model using economic information and company bookkeeping information to assess its growth potential and the progress of its activities.

Funds

Investing in funds allows investors to benefit from specialist's skills in asset management. These funds, consituted of multiple investments from a large number of clients, are managed as a single, broadly diversified portfolio in order to limit risks linked to individual stocks as much as possible.

Future

A standardised exchange traded contract to trade a fixed amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a future date.

Futures contract

Undertaking to buy or sell a specific quantity of a financial product at a price and date set when the contract is signed.

Futures market

The futures market is where operations are settled only after a certain period of time. In the case of the Brussels Stock Exchange, the period is roughly 15 days (market fortnight).