Forex Glossary - FX Terms

Glossary

• Ask Rate
  The rate at which a financial instrument is offered for sale.
• Asset Allocation
  Investment practice that divides funds among various markets to achieve diversification for risk ...
• Arbitrage
   Buying or selling of a financial instrument and simultaneous taking of an equal and opposite ...
• Around
   Dealer slang used in quoting when the forward premium/discount is close to parity. For example, ...
• Appreciation
   Saying about a currency that it is `appreciated` means it is strengthens in price in response to ...
• ADP Nonfarm Employment Change
  Measures the change in number of employed people during the previous month, excluding the farming ...
• Advance GDP Annualized
   Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the total value of all goods and services produced by the ...
• Advance GDP Deflator Annualized
   The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Deflator measures the annualized quarterly implied rate of ...
• All Industries Activity Index
   Measures the change in spending for goods and services. This indicator is similar to the Tertiary ...
• ANZ Commodity Price Index
   Measures the rate of inflation (i.e., the rate of price changes) for the nation's seventeen main ...
• Average Cash Earnings
  Measures the monthly change in the wages paid to jobholders
• Average Earnings Index
   The Average Earnings Index (AEI) measures the average wage, including bonuses, paid to employees. ...
• Average Hourly Earnings
   Measures the rate of inflation found in the wages paid to nonfarm jobholders. A rising trend has a ...
• ADP Nonfarm Employment Change
  The ADP National Employment Report is a measure of the monthly change in non-farm, private ...
• All Industries Activity Index
  The All Industries Activity Index measures the monthly change in overall production by all sectors ...
• ANZ Commodity Price Index
  The ANZ Commodity Price Index measures the change in the selling price of exported commodities. ...
• Average Cash Earnings
  Average Cash Earnings measures the change in employment income, including bonuses and overtime pay. ...
• Average Earnings Index +Bonus
  The Average Earnings Index measures change in the price businesses and the government pay for labor,...
• Average Hourly Earnings
  Average Hourly Earnings measures the change in the price businesses pay for labor, not including the...
• Adjusted Current Account
  The Japanese Adjusted Current Account index measures the difference in value between exported and ...
• AIG Manufacturing Index
  The Australian Industry Group (AIG) Manufacturing index rates the relative level of business ...
• AIG Services Index
  The Australian Industry Group (AIG) Services Index rates the relative level of business conditions ...
• AIG Construction Index
  The Australian Industry Group (AIG) Construction Index rates the relative level of business ...
• Average Weekly Hours
  Average Weekly Hours (also known as Average Workweek) measures the average number of hours worked by...
• ANZ Job Advertisements
  Le Rapport du Groupe bancaire d'Australie et de Nouvelle Zélande (ANZ) sur les Offres ...
• Argentinian CPI
  The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the change in the price of goods and services from the ...
• Argentinian Economic Activity
  The Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC) Economy Activity Index provides an early ...
• Argentinian Unemployment Rate
  The Unemployment Rate measures the percentage of the total work force that is unemployed and ...
• Argentinian GDP
  Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the annualized change in the inflation-adjusted value of all ...
• Argentinian Industrial Production
  Industrial Production measures the change in the total inflation-adjusted value of output produced ...
• Argentinian Retail Sales
  Retail Sales measure the change in the total value of inflation-adjusted sales at the retail level. ...
• Austrian GDP
  Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the annualized change in the inflation-adjusted value of all ...
• API Weekly Crude Stock
  The American Petroleum Institute reports inventory levels of US crude oil, gasoline and distillates ...
• API Weekly Gasoline Stock
  The American Petroleum Institute reports inventory levels of US crude oil, gasoline and distillates ...
• Argentinian Trade Balance
  Trade balance, called also net export, is the difference between the value of country's exports...
• Austrian Industrial Production
• Austrian PPI
• Austrian Trade Balance
• Austrian Unemployment Rate

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