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This company, popular for its shoes and sports apparel, was recently removed from the S&P 100 after its stock suffered a major decline in market value and underperformed the broader market.
What is Nike
This term describes a market where stock prices are generally rising and investor sentiment is positive. The opposite of this would be a bear market
What is Bull Market
known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” this investor is the longtime CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
Who is Warren Buffett
Founded in 1792, this is the famous stock exchange located on Wall Street in New York City.
What is the NYSE
AAPL
Apple
On September 25, this major tech company’s stock rose after it announced new AI capabilities for its Copilot app, including coding and agentic AI tools.
What is Microsoft
This three-to-five letter abbreviation is used to identify a publicly traded company
What is a Ticker Symbol
This billionaire is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the company whose chips have become a major part of the artificial intelligence boom.
Who is Jensen Huang
This famous stock market crash happened in October 1929 and helped lead to what?
The Great Depression
AMZN
Amazon
As of September 28, 2026, renewed tensions surrounding this strategic waterway were contributing to weakness in U.S. stock futures.
What is the Strait of Hormuz
A single unit of ownership in a company is called this.
A share
At just 24 years old, this investor gained attention for betting heavily on companies that could benefit from the growth of artificial intelligence through his hedge fund, Situational Awareness. The fund collapsed over the summer due to high leverage.
Who is Leopold Aschenbrenner
In 2008, the collapse of this major investment bank became one of the defining moments of the financial crisis.
Also Acceptable: Bear Sterns, though not the correct answer this was another major collapse.
NFLX
Netflix
The Federal Reserve recently raised its target interest-rate range to this level, citing persistent inflation concerns.
Also Acceptable: 3.75% or 4.00%
This is the term for the total value of all the shares of a publicly traded company or the total value of a company in general.
What is Market Cap or Market Capitalization.
This investor became famous for managing the Magellan Fund at Fidelity and is known for the book One Up on Wall Street.
Who is Peter Lynch
This U.S. government agency was created in 1934 to help regulate the securities markets following the 1929 crash.
What is the SEC
WMT
Walmart
Today, this company announced the largest stock buyback in stock market history.
What is NVIDIA.
This is a payment a company can make to shareholders, usually from its profits.
What is a dividend
This investor made billions by betting against the housing market before the 2008 financial crisis, a story featured in The Big Short.
Who is Michael Burry
This 1987 stock market crash saw the Dow Jones fall about 22% in a single day. This is considered one of the worst one day market crashes in history.
What was Black Monday
BA
Boeing