Vocabulary
The availability of your money.
What is liquidity?
Stock in a corporation with voting rights
What is common stock?
A company that makes investments for people or allows them access to the stock market.
What is a brokerage?
This type of investment is essentially loaning money to a company or the government to be paid back at a set date with interest.
What is a bond?
What law school did Mrs. Haley go to?
What is Georgia State University?
Savings account with slightly higher interest rate because you are agreeing to tie up your money for a short period.
What is a C.D.?
The abbreviation for a company is known as this?
What is a ticker symbol?
What is second America's largest electronic stock market? Many technology stocks such as Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo are traded on this stock exchange
What is NASDAQ?
A large group of people invest a pool of money to be invested for them into many different areas.
What is a mutual fund?
What is it called when the amount of money spent is more than the amount of money collected?
What is a deficit?
The likelihood that an investment will decrease in value.
What is risk?
Your piece of ownership in a company is called.
What is a share of stock?
What is the average price of 30 selected industrial stocks, used as a measure of general market trends?
What is Dow Jones?
A property that is owned and can increase in value over time.
What is real estate?
What tracks the prices of 500 different stocks as a measure of overall stock market performance?
What is S & P 500?
What is called when you spread your money out?
What is diversification?
A percentage of the profits shared with shareholders.
What is a dividend?
When a company goes public they offer this.
What is an IPO (Initial Public Offering)?
This is usually sold with an insurance contract and is designed to protect you from losing your capital.
What is an annuity?
DAILY DOUBLE! When the market is going up, it is a THIS market. When the market is declining, it is a THIS market.
What is a BULL market (going up)? What is a BEAR market (going down)?
Term for selling an asset at a higher price than what you paid for it.
What is capital gain?
This agency establishes and oversees regulations in the securities industry.
Who is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)?
What is the world's largest Stock Exchange and it is located on Wall Street!
What is The New York Stock Exchange?
This type of bond is the lowest risk.
What is a government bond?
What does a high Price/Earnings ratio indicate?
A Stock is expensive.