Stock Market Basics
What is an ETF?
Exchange-Traded Fund
The company whose logo is a golden “M” shaped like arches.
What is McDonald's?
AAPL
What is Apple?
Money kept in a bank that earns interest.
What is a savings account?
A market where prices are falling.
What is a bear market?
A share in ownership of a company.
What is a stock?
The software giant founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
What is Microsoft?
MSFT
What is Microsoft?
A three-digit number that measures creditworthiness.
What is a credit score?
Owning a variety of investments to reduce risk.
What is diversification?
A market where prices are rising.
What is a bull market?
The product Amazon started selling first.
What are books?
TSLA
What is Tesla?
The central bank of the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve?
The total value of a company’s shares.
What is market capitalization?
What is an IPO?
Initial Public Offering
The company nicknamed “Big Blue.”
What is IBM?
JPM
What is JPMorgan Chase?
The fee charged for borrowing money.
What is interest?
Buying a stock to sell it quickly at a higher price.
What is trading (or speculation)?
A payment made by a company to shareholders.
What is a dividend?
The company owned by Warren Buffett.
What is Berkshire Hathaway?
DIS
What is Disney?
Bank deposits up to the legal limit.
What does the FDIC insure?
A prolonged period of declining economic activity.
What is a recession?