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an owner of a stock
What is a stockholder?
a large, stable company with a good reputation for consumers and investors
What is a blue-chip stock?
the most well-known measure of stock prices consisting of 30 large U.S. companies
What is the Dow Jones (Industrial Average)?
a person or group that makes something for other people to buy
What is a business?
an increase in the general level of prices
What is inflation?
someone who buys stock
What is an investor?
a prolonged period of falling stock prices
What is a bear market?
a place in New York City where people complete trades on behalf of investors throughout the world
What is the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)?
a company legally separate from the stockholders who own it and the managers who run it
What is a corporation?
something of value that a company holds
What is an asset?
someone who starts and manages his own business
What is an entrepreneur?
a prolonged period of rising stock prices
What is a bull market?
a popular measure of stock prices consisting of 500 large companies
What is the S&P 500?
a group of companies producing similar products or services
What is an industry?
the amount by which a company's costs exceed its revenue
What is a loss?
a member company of a stock exchange that acts both as an auctioneer and a market maker
What is a specialist?
the basic ownership of a company with voting rights and no guaranteed dividend, earning company's profits and bearing company's losses
What is a common stock?
third largest stock market in the U.S. in New York City where people trade stocks and other investments on behalf of customers
What is the American Stock Exchange (AMEX)?
a company owned or managed by two or more people who share its profits and losses
What is a partnership?
reducing risks by combining different investments
What is diversification?
a business or person that buys or sells on behalf of a customer
What is a broker?
shares with no voting rights but a guaranteed dividend
What is a preferred stock?
a popular gauge of stock performances of 2,000 smaller companies
What is the Russell 2000 Index?
a company owned or managed by one single person not separate from its owner
What is a proprietorship?
the decline in value of an asset over time
What is depreciation?