Glossary
- Call (warrant)
- Cancelled order
- Cap (investment and leverage products)
- Capital increase
- Capital market
- Capital reduction
- Capital stock
- Cash dividend
- Cash market
- Cash settlement (warrants)
- Cash settlement price
- Cashflow
- CDAX
- Central bank
- Certificate
- Certificate of renewal
- Changes to the composition of an index
- Chart
- Chart analysis
- Classic All Share
- Clean price
- Clearing
- Close out
- Closed-end fund
- Closing Price
- Coco bond
- Collective custody
- Commercial paper
- Commission
- Commission trading
- Commodity futures
- Commodity futures exchange
- Common gap
- Compliance guidelines
- Conditional capital increase
- Consumer Confidence
- Continuous trading
- Convertible bond
- Cooperative stock exchanges
- Corporate bond
- Correlation coefficient
- Counter transaction
- Countercyclical investment
- Countercyclical stocks
- Country risk
- Coupon
- Course notes
- Covered warrant
- Creation
- Credit risk
- Creditworthiness
- Cum
- Currency bond
- Cyclical shares
- Cyclical stocks
Credit risk
Risk of loss due to limited solvency of an issuer.
As credit risk is the issuer of a fixed-interest security may not be able to meet his interest and repayment obligations to the investors. The weaker the creditworthiness of the issuer, the higher the credit risk
A recognized measure of the credit risk on bonds are ratings.
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