Investing Review- Personal Finance

Spreading your investments around to inrease financial security

• Risk assessment
• Diversification
• Stocks, bonds & cash
• Liquidity trap

Ownership in a publicly traded corporation

• CD-certificate of deposit
• Money Market 
• Treasury bill
• Stock

World's largest stock exchange founded in 1790.

• NASDAQ
• AMEX
• NYSE
• EuroNext

What is happening if stocks are in a "bear market"?

• Going up
• Going down
• Staying even
• Inflation

The portion of the profits that falls to the share of each individual shareholder of a company.

• Dividend

• Shareholder

• Audit

• Accounts

People who own stocks are guaranteed a return on the money they have invested in stocks.

• TRUE
• FALSE

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

You can buy stock in any company in the world.

• True, all companies are required to offer stock.
• False, a company is only listed on the stock exchange if it wants to be.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

The possibility of losing some or all of a particiular investment.

• risk
• index
• industry
• profit

The DOW Jones Industrial Average is an index of 30 American companies.  Why is the DOW Jones Industrial Average important?

• It tells Americans how much debt the country is in.
• It helps economists predict when a stock market crash will happen.
• It tells Americans how many jobs are out there.
• It provides a snapshot of how the stock market and the US economy is doing.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

This is where your orders to buy or sell stock are sent and carried out

• Stock Exchange

• Brokerage Firm

• Stock Meeting Place

• Money Exchange