Origins & History
What is the Netherlands?
The country where the first stock exchange was established in the 1600s.
What is the 1930s?
The decade when the Great Depression began.
What is an investor or trader?
A person who buys and sells stocks.
What is investing in the stock market?
This allows people to grow their wealth over time.
What is speculation?
A risk when people blindly follow trends without research.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This company was the first to issue publicly traded stock.
What is Black Monday?
The major crash that occurred in October 1987.
What is a bull market?
The term for a sustained rise in stock prices.
What is Apple?
This tech company became one of the world’s largest thanks to the stock market.
What is insider trading?
This unfair practice involves trading based on confidential information.
What is the Buttonwood Agreement?
The name of the document signed under a buttonwood tree that led to the NYSE.
What is 2008 regarding the stock market?
This year marked a global financial crisis sparked by the U.S. housing market.
What is a bear market?
This term means a prolonged drop in the stock market.
What is a 401(k)?
A plan many workers use to save for retirement.
What is securities fraud?
This practice of false or misleading information to affect stock prices is illegal.
What is the New York Stock Exchange?
This U.S. stock exchange was founded in 1792 and is still active today.
What is Lehman Brothers?
The company that went bankrupt during the 2008 crash, once one of the largest investment banks.
What is market capitalization?
The total value of a company’s shares.
What is the financial sector?
This sector of the U.S. economy has grown because of the stock market.
What is a bubble?
A time when stocks are overpriced based on excitement rather than value.
What is the Great Depression?
This global event was triggered by the stock market crash in 1929.
What is the GameStop Short Squeeze?
A 2021 event where retail investors drove up a stock's price against hedge funds.
What is a mutual fund?
This type of fund pools money to invest in a diversified portfolio.
What is a dividend?
A financial reward paid to shareholders.
What is volatility?
The term for rapid price changes in the market.