Terminologies
What is a bear market?
A market in which prices are falling, encouraging selling.
What is a stock?
Ownership of a company
AMZN
Amazon
When supply is low and demand is high, prices ?
Increase
What is a stock market?
A market where people buy and sell stocks related securities
What is an initial public offering?
The process of offering shares of a private corporation to the public in a new stock issuance.
What are GICs?
Guaranteed Investment Certificates, the safest investment option but also the worst type of investment.
PEP
Pepsi
Annual inflation decreases your purchasing power by devaluing your liquid assets
What is a bond market?
A market where bonds are traded
What is liquidity?
The ability to turn investments into cash
What is real estate?
Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water
ATVI
Activision
Give an advantage of owning a bond
Safety
What is a commodity market?
A market that trades in the primary economic sector rather than manufactured products
What is a stock split?
When a company divides the existing shares of its stock into multiple new shares to boost the stock's liquidity.
What are options?
An option is a contract which conveys its owner, the holder, the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument at a specified strike price prior to or on a specified date
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What is the S&P 500?
500 largest American companies
What is the forex market?
Foreign exchange market
What is Rule 72?
The calculation which determines how long it will take your money to double.
What is Treasury Bill?
This investment is a short-term loan to the government
BRK.B
Berkshire Hathaway
Double!
What is quantitative easing?
Printing money to provide liquidity of the financial system.
What is the OTC market?
A decentralized market in which market participants trade stocks, commodities, currencies or other instruments directly between two parties and without a central exchange or broker.