SAR

Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, is a remote sensing technique using the motion of a radar instrument to create high-resolution images of Earth’s surface.

SAREB

SAREB is an acronym in Spanish for Sociedad de Gestión de Activos procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria. It is a holding bank (a bit like NAMA in Ireland), established in 2012 in Spain that holds property and other assets transferred to it by four nationalised banks to get the bad assets off their balance sheets. […]

Parenteral nutrition

Parenteral nutrition or intravenous feeding involves delivering nutrients and fluid directly into a patient’s bloodstream, bypassing the digestive system (i.e. enteral nutrition)

AIC dividend hero

The Association of Investment Companies monitors investment companies’ dividend payments and awards dividend hero status to those investment companies that have grown their dividend every year for at least 20 years. Those investment companies that have achieved consecutive years of dividend growth for at least 10 but less than 20 years are termed ‘next generation […]

Tail risk

Tail risk refers to an outside chance that an investment will experience a sudden fall from its average value (technically it could also apply to a sudden increase in value, but that isn’t how this tends to be used). Strictly, the phrase is referring to a move which is at least three standard deviations away […]

Backwardation

A backwardation describes a situation where the price for a commodity now is higher than the price of that commodity in the future. Logically, that does not make sense as there is additional risk associated with waiting to get the commodity and, if the commodity is beng stockpiled, there are associated storage costs. The opposite […]

Contango

Contango describes a situation in the commodities markets where the current price of a commodity is lower than the price of the same commodity in the future. The opposite of contango is a backwardation.

HCOB PMI

HCOB PMI is an acronym for the Hamburg Commercial Bank Purchasing Managers’ Index – a measure of economic activity. PMI is defined here. HCOB is now endorsing PMI’s produced for the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

Large cap

In the US, large cap tends to mean companies with a market capitalisation in excess of $10bn. However, in the UK we tend to think about large cap stocks being those in the FTSE 100 Index. The market cap threshold to qualify for that varies over time but it is roughly £4bn. For QuotedData’s purposes […]

Treasury notes

Treasury notes represent debt issued by the US government that has a maturity less than a Treasury bond but longer than a Treasury bill – in other words more than one year but less than 20 years. Like Treasury bonds, Treasury notes pay a fixed annual interest payment (coupon) in six-monthly instalments and repay a […]

WALE

WALE is an abbreviation of Weighted Average Lease Expiry. It is used by property companies as an indicator of the average remaining life of the leases within their portfolios, taking into account the size. This can be the size of either expected income or space. Therefore large tenants can shift the balance of things, especially […]

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