Investments
Government Programs
Mystery
About a Stock
Keeping Track
100
A type of security that indicates ownership (equity) in a corporation and represents a claim on the proportional share in the company's profits and assets.
What is a stock?
100
A personal savings account established at a bank, mutual fund, or brokerage that allows wage-earning individuals to make tax-deferred contributions to a personal retirement fund and invest the savings.
What is an IRA - Individualized Retirement Account
100
A prolonged market period where investment prices fall.
What is a bear market?
100
A taxable payment paid to a company's shareholders out of the current of retained earnings, usually quarterly.
What is a dividend?
100
The most widely used indicator of the overall condition of the U.S. stock market; a price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue chip stocks.
What is the Dow Jones Index?
200
A financial product sold by financial institutions that pay out a stream of payments to the individual at a later point.
What is an annuity?
200
The U.S. regulatory authority and independent agency for the securities industry, promoting full disclosure and protecting investors against fraud and manipulative practices.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
200
A public place where buyers and sellers conduct transactions, either directly or via intermediaries.
What is a market?
200
An open-ended fund operated by an investment company that raises money from shareholders and invests it in stocks, bonds, commodities, or money market securities in accordance with a stated set of objectives.
What is a mutual fund?
200
A well known index computed by the Standard and Poor's Corporation determined by the price action of 500 widely held large corporations from different sectors of the economy.
What is the Standard and Poor's 500 Index
300
A debt security issued for a period longer that one year by corporations, governments or their agencies, with the intent of raising capital by borrowing.
What is a bond?
300
An employer sponsored retirement plan that allows an employee to save for retirement and defer income taxes on the saved money until its withdrawal.
What is a 401(k)?
300
The measurable likelihood of loss or less-than-expected returns.
What is risk?
300
A computerized New York-based U.S. stock exchange, primarily representing a market for technology companies
What is NASDAQ - National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations?
300
Resources with economic value owned by a company, fund, or individual especially those that can be converted to cash.
What are assets?
400
A tradable, physical substance that can generally be further processed and sold, and is interchangeable with other products of the same type for investors to buy and sell.
What is a commodity?
400
A type of investment plan designed to encourage saving for the future higher education expenses.
What is a 529 plan?
400
A legal document, required by the Securities Act of 1933, setting forth the complete history and current status of a security or fund, terms, issuer, objectives, financial statements, and planned use of money to help an investor decide whether the investment is appropriate for him/her.
What is a prospectus?
400
An agreement that conveys the right, but not the obligation, to the holder to buy or sell a particular security at a stipulated price with a stated period of time.
What is an option?
400
A decrease in the value of an investment or asset from the initial purchase price.
What is a capital loss?
500
An agreement with a commercial bank that promises a fixed interest rate on funds deposited for a specified period of time.
What is a certificate of deposit?
500
A tax-deferred defined benefit or defined contribution plan that is established by a self-employed individual for him/herself and his/her employees.
What is a Keough Plan?
500
Loans to the federal government and considered to be a safe investment. Maturity dates are usually one year or less, and generally, bills with longer maturities have a higher rate of return.
What is a T-Bill (U.S. Treasury Bill)?
500
An investor's collection of investment holdings, usually with reference to its composition; these often include stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
What is a portfolio?
500
An overall general increase in the price of goods and services resulting in a decrease in your ability to buy as much for the same amount of money.
What is inflation?
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