FTSE

British stock index

FTSE is a series of stock market indexes tracking companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

The name originally stood for Financial Times Stock Exchange, reflecting the joint venture that created it.

The FTSE 100 tracks the hundred largest UK-listed companies by market capitalization: The FTSE dropped sharply on Brexit news.

Pronounced "footsie."

trading

equities

Ownership stakes in corporations

investors · dividends · bullish · bearish · volatility · liquidity · futures · options · derivatives · hedging

British

London

England's capital city

pound · economy · multinationals · blue-chip · listing · shareholder · capital · Financial Times · Bank of England · gilt

benchmark

performance

Carrying out a task

indicator · standard · yardstick · baseline · reference · tracking · returns · outperform · underperform · beat

index

constituents

Parts of a whole

rebalancing · indices · composite · Russell · inclusion · exclusion · methodology · ranking · tier · promotion

Opposites
geographic market representation

FTSEDow Jones

Stock market benchmark

Dow · S&P 500 · NASDAQ · Nikkei · Hang Seng

market performance direction

FTSEbear market

Prolonged securities decline

market capitalization scope

FTSEAIM

Discontinued messaging platform

penny stocks

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
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