The future for Twinkies is in doubt due to this company's recent bankruptcy.
Hostess
100
This currency is controlled by the ECB.
Euro
100
Buy a stock; buy a put
Protective put
100
Fed committee that makes key decisions regarding interest rates and the growth of the U.S. money supply.
FOMC
100
Bernanke's latest attempt at stimulating the economy.
QE3
200
The biggest company in U.S. history.
Apple
200
The currency in Japan
Yen
200
How to purchase a covered call
Buy a stock; sell a call
200
Holds primary responsibility for enforcing federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other electronic securities markets in the United States.
SEC
200
Say goodbye to the Bush tax cuts if we "go over" this.
Fiscal cliff
300
Autonomy has not been good for this company of late.
HP
300
The currency in Israel
Sheqel
300
How to purchase a long straddle
Buy a put and call at same strike and expiration
300
This central bank plays a key role in the Greek debt crisis.
ECB
300
This event caused the first weather-related closure of the stock market for more than 24 hours since 1885.
Hurricane Sandy
400
Soon to be the proud new owners of most of Sprint.
Softbank
400
If expelled from the EU, Greece could return to using this currency.
Drachma
400
Buy a call at a lower strike; sell a call at a higher strike with the same expiration
Bull call spread
400
Standard setting body that develops the IFRS framework for accounting principles.
IASB
400
This former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee for the TARP bailouts was recently elected to the US Senate.
Elizabeth Warren
500
This company recently adopted a "poison pill" in order to fend off a potential takeover attempt by activist investor Carl Icahn.
Netflix
500
Currency in Afghanistan
afghani
500
Purchase a bull call spread and a bear put spread with the same pair of strike prices
Box spread
500
National banks in the United States are chartered by this bureau.
OCC
500
The current head of the SEC, she took the post amidst the 2008-09 financial crisis and the Bernie Madoff scandal, and announced her resignation recently.