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- Socially Responsible Investing
  
  An investment strategy that seeks to generate both financial returns and positive social and environmental outcomes.
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- Sovereign Bond
  
  Debt security issued by a national government.
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- Special Drawing Rights (SDR)
  
  An international reserve asset created by the IMF to supplement member countries’ reserves. Its value is based on a basket of major currencies.
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- Speculation
  
  Buying or selling assets mainly to profit from short-term price movements rather than long-term value.
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- Spot Market
  
  Market where assets are traded for immediate delivery at the current market price.
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- Spot Price
  
  The current market price at which an asset can be bought or sold for immediate execution.
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- Spread
  
  Difference between bid and ask prices of an asset.
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- Spread-Betting
  
  A way to trade on whether prices will go up or down without owning the asset, similar to CFD trading. Both use leverage, but spread betting is usually tax-free and mainly allowed in the UK and Ireland.
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- Stagflation
  
  An economic situation where high inflation happens at the same time as slow growth and rising unemployment.
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- Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500)
  
  A stock index that tracks the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S., showing overall market performance.
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- Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500)
  
  A stock index that tracks the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S., showing overall market performance.
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- Standard Deviation
  
  A measure of how much investment returns vary from the average — higher values mean greater volatility.
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- Sterling
  
  Another name for the British pound (GBP), the official currency of the United Kingdom.
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- Stochastic Oscillator
  
  A momentum indicator comparing a security’s closing price to its recent high-low range to spot overbought or oversold signals.
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- Stock
  
  Represents ownership in a company.
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Socially Responsible Investing

Sovereign Bond

Special Drawing Rights (SDR)

Speculation

Spot Market

Spot Price

Spread

Spread-Betting

Stagflation

Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500)

Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500)

Standard Deviation

Sterling

Stochastic Oscillator

Stock

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