The primary U.S. agency involved with regulating the stock market.
What is the SEC?
100
The worst market crash in the history of the United States; one of the major factors in causing the Great Depression.
What is the crash of 1929/Black Tuesday?
100
Borrowing money from brokers to further invest into stocks. Now-a-days is regulated heavily by the government
What is margin buying?
100
Significant drops in the stock market can cause companies to lose money and investors to lose confidence in their stocks. A common result is an increase in this negative aspect of the economy
What is unemployment?
100
Social media company; resisted going public for many years
Inital Public Offering was controversial
What is Facebook?
200
A law that set new or enhanced standards for all U.S. public company boards, and management and public accounting firms; resulted from many corporate and accounting scandals.
What is Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX)
200
Usually caused by crash of the stock markets; economy is officially deemed in this after 2 successive quarters of no growth in GDP.
What is a recession?
200
The idea that consumers are more willing to increase spending based on how their investments in the stock markets are doing.
What is the wealth effect?
200
When a company reaches a point that it needs more funding to expand, it will do this to make more money and make more money for others
What is "going public?"
200
Investors were reluctant to invest in this company after its rival company had difficulty with going public the year before; yet it did well on its first day public.
What is Twitter?
300
The SEC maintains this in the stock market, which is critical to strong functioning of the economy.
What is confidence?
300
Caused mainly by the housing market crash and selfish acts of banks. This led to a crash in the Stock Market.
What is the recession of 2007-08?
300
The act of an individual using information that is not released to the public yet to give his or herself an unfair advantage in investing into the stock market.
What is insider trading?
300
The ups and downs of the stock market can affect this aspect of a worker's lifetime goals (2 possible answers)
What is investment trust and/or private pensions?
300
this company is the nation's largest independent broker dealer; leading independent consultant to retirement plans