A trade in which an investor sells a certain currency with a relatively low interest rate and uses the funds to purchase a different currency yielding a higher interest rate. A trader using this strategy attempts to capture the difference between the rates - which can often be substantial, depending on the amount of leverage the investor chooses to use.

QDII, qualified domestic institutional investor, is a scheme relating to the capital market which is set up to give financial institutions the ability to invest in overseas markets in categories such as securities and bonds. It provides limited opportunity for domestic investors to access foreign markets at a stage where a country’s currency is not tradable or floating completely freely. China allows QDIIs to invest in foreign securities markets via approved insurance companies, banks, fund 

Catalist, the transformed SESDAQ, is Singapore Exchange’s new sponsor-supervised listing platform for fast growing local and international companies.
It allows a sponsor to determine the suitability of a company for listing without SGX reviewing the admission of the company. The rules and processes for secondary fundraising and business expansion have been changed to meet growth companies’ needs.
Under Catalist’s rules, companies must list through a Sponsor and need not meet any 

Compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, is a term that gets used when investment advisors tout their market savvy and funds promote their returns. But what does it really show?
The CAGR is a mathematical formula that provides a “smoothed” rate of return. It is really a pro forma number that tells you what an investment yields on an annually compounded basis

Management Buy-Out is the term applied when a business is sold to the existing management team. Often this occurs when companies seek to dispose of parts of the business or where the existing owner-manager is looking to retire.

This is the quoted bid, or the highest price an investor is willing to pay to buy a security. Practically speaking, this is the available price at which an investor can sell shares of stock.

The simultaneous buying and selling of a security at two different prices in two different markets, resulting in profits without risk. Perfectly efficient markets present no arbitrage opportunities. Perfectly efficient markets, however, seldom exist.

Short-selling refers to the selling of shares not owned in the hope of making profits by buying them back later at a lower price. Under current rules, short selling is not illegal. However, the system requires a short seller to cover the position within the same day or be bought in four days later at prices that start above the prevailing market price.
The SGX will buy-in against the short seller who fails to deliver on due date without giving any notice. On the day of buying-in, the SGX will 

The CPI, as it is called, measures the prices of consumer goods and services and is a measure of the pace of inflation.

Often referred to as the Dow, it is the best known and most widely reported indicator of the stock market’s performance. The Dow tracks the price changes of 30 significant industrial stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Their combined market value is equal to roughly 20% of the market value of all stocks listed on the NYSE. The Dow is computed by adding the total value of the 30 stocks and dividing by a factor that adjusts the distortions caused by stock splits over the years. There