Financial Markets

Stock exchange

• a market for buying and selling stock

• a computer program to monitor the markets

• material information about a company's fininacials

Securities and exchange commission

• a market for buying and selling stock

• Government body created by congress to regulate markets and protect investors

• steady rise in the markets

match the following

• a steady rise in the market

• raider

• material information about a company's financial moves and decisions

• inside information

• steady decline in the market

• bull market

• and individual or organization who tries to take over a company in a hostile bid

• stock watcher

• a computer program used by the NYSE to monitor trading

• bear market

Match the following

• buying/selling a security after receiving material information the public is not aware of

• insider trading

• 1929 stock market collapse

• great crash

• portion of stock

• stockbroker

• Individual that trades stock on behalf of an investor

• share

Match the following

• division of a single share of stock into two shares

• stock split

• Outside investors attempt to buy controlling shares in a company that is unwelcomed

• speculation

• risking investing

• Hostile takeover

A stock that REINVESTS it earnings in the business is ....

• Income

• common

• preferred

• growth

Dow Jones Industrial Average consists of 30 stocks that are considered representative of the market as a whole....

• True

• False

Stock split is most likely to occur....

• A company is losing money

• stockholders demand dividends

• the price of the stock becomes to high

A blue chip company is

• Start up firm

• Foreign-owned

• An established company

T/F..Most trades occur on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

• Fales

• True