Stock Market Vocab
This is a type of investment that represents ownership in a company.
What is a stock?
This is a group of stocks used to measure how the overall market is doing.
What is a stock index?
What company uses the ticker symbol AAPL?
What is Apple?
When stock prices are generally going up, it’s called this type of market.
What is a bull market?
This 1929 event marked the start of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash (or Black Tuesday)?
This term refers to the profit a company shares with its shareholders, usually paid quarterly.
What is a dividend?
This famous U.S. index tracks 30 large companies like Coca-Cola and Nike.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
What company uses the ticker symbol AMZN?
What is Amazon?
When stock prices are generally going down, it’s called this type of market.
What is a bear market?
This major 1930s economic crisis led to new stock market regulations like the SEC.
What is the Great Depression?
This is the initial sale of a company’s stock to the public.
What is an IPO (Initial Public Offering)?
This index includes 500 big companies and is often used to represent the whole U.S. market.
What is the S&P 500?
What company uses the ticker symbol META?
What is Meta Platforms?
This term means how much a stock’s price moves up and down.
What is volatility?
This president’s "New Deal" included reforms to stabilize the economy and markets.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This is a group of stocks that represent a portion of the market, like the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones.
What is a market index?
This index focuses mostly on technology companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft.
What is the NASDAQ?
What company uses the ticker symbol TGT?
What is Target?
This is the emotional reaction many investors have that can cause big swings in the market.
What is panic selling (or just emotion/fear)?
This 2008 event caused the collapse of major financial institutions and a sharp market decline.
What is the Financial Crisis or Great Recession?
This term describes a period when stock prices are rising and investors are optimistic.
What is a bull market?
Why do investors use stock market indices like the S&P 500 or Dow Jones?
What is to track overall market performance and see how the economy or their investments are doing?
What company uses the ticker symbol DIS?
What is Disney?
A short-term drop of 10% or more in the market is called this.
What is a correction?
In the late 1990s, this technology-driven stock market bubble burst when overvalued internet companies collapsed.
What is the dot-com bubble?