Financial Lingo
This is an entry level bank account where customers can place money they do not want to spend right away.
What is a savings account?
This is the official currency of the United States.
What is the dollar?
Also known as milk punch, this drink experiences 20% of its global sales during the month of December.
What is eggnog?
This is the name given to the busiest holiday shopping day of the season, held the day after Thanksgiving.
What is Black Friday?
What is a budget?
This item is used to make purchases at a store with an agreement that the consumer will pay for the item at a future time.
What is a credit card?
Between Thanksgiving and New Years Day, this Kansas-based pizza chain experiences three of its five most profitable business days.
What is Pizza Hut?
This online retailer has the most sales of any retailer during the holiday season.
What is Amazon?
This four-letter word is the term used for money that an individual owes to another person or entity.
What is debt?
This item is used to make purchases directly from a consumer's bank account electronically instead of using cash.
What is a debit card?
This device is the fastest growing method used by American consumers to make holiday gift purchases.
What is a cell phone?
This is the most common method of payment by U.S. consumers during the holiday season.
What is a credit card?
When someone can't afford to pay for a car or house completely out of pocket, they will often borrow money from a bank to make the purchase. What is this agreement with the bank called?
What is a loan?
When credit card payments aren't made on time, this rate will cause the amount of money owed by consumers to increase over time.
What is interest?
At 43 feet tall, the Emirates Palace Hotel boasts the most expensive of this holiday decoration in the world.
What is a Christmas tree?
In 2023, this skin cosmetic was the most commonly sold U.S. stocking stuffer.
What is body lotion?
This term describes placing money into an account in hopes that the money's value will grow over time.
What is investment?
This is the name of the federal department that oversees the printing of money and managing the country's finances.
What is the Department of the Treasury?
As male consumers try to bedazzle the ladies, this industry experiences the highest grossing profits worldwide at Christmas time.
What is jewelry?
Bah humbug! This national seafood restaurant chain recently announced that all of its locations will be open on Christmas Day.
What is Red Lobster?