- b (price addendum)
- Backwardation
- Balance-sheet analysis
- Basis point
- Basis trade
- Basket certificate
- bB (price addendum)
- Bear market
- Bearer share
- Beta factor
- bG (price addendum)
- Bid
- Bid price
- Bid-ask spread
- Black-Scholes model
- Blue chips
- Bobl Future
- Bodies of the stock exchange
- Bond
- Bond index
- Bonus
- Bonus certificate
- Bonus shares
- Book-building
- Börsenordnung (Stock Exchange Rules and Regulations)
- Börsenrat (Exchange Council)
- Break-even point (warrants)
- Breakout gap
- Bridge capital
- Broker
- Brokerage commission
- Bund Future
- Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BAFin)
- Business angel
- Business plan
- Buyback
Bond index
Reflects the weighted average price of a bond portfolio – which consists of notional bonds or mortgage bonds – at a given point in timeBond indices are calculated, updated and published by exchanges, banks and other financial experts.
A bond index can be calculated either as a price or a performance index. Owing to the wide range of bond maturities, bond indices are calculated on the basis of a portfolio of notional bonds so that the structure of the index remains constant over time.
Examples of bond indices in Germany are REX ® , the iBoxx indices ( iBoxx EUR and iBoxx GBP ), the eb.rexX index famlily and the PEX® .