Owens Investment Quiz 1

represents how large an asset's prices swing around the mean price—it is a statistical measure of its dispersion of returns

• dividend

• volatility

• risk

• stocks

is a marketable U.S. government debt security with a fixed interest rate and a maturity between two and 10 years.

• series ee bonds

• treasury bills

• treasury notes

• stock symbol

a short-term debt obligation backed by the U.S. Treasury Department with a maturity of one year or less.

• treasury bills

• treasury bond

• bull market

• NASDAQ

a type of security that gives stockholders a share of ownership in a company.

• bond

• capital gain

• rate of return

• stock

bundle of rights which a shareholder possesses by virtue of part or total ownership of shares.

• securities

• s&p 500

• growth stock

• stockholders rights

are the owners of a company's outstanding shares, which represents a residual portion of the corporation's assets and earnings as well as a percentage of the company's voting power.

• stockholder

• face value

• equities

• investing

an arrangement of characters—usually letters—representing publicly-traded securities on an exchange.

• blue chip

• common stock

• preferred stock

• stock symbol

an investor's collection of stocks, funds, and other market-traded securities

• insured bonds

• liquidity

• stock portfolio

• mutual funds

refers to several exchanges in which shares of publicly held companies are bought and sold

• stock fund

• stock exchange

• speculator

• symbol

utilizes strategies and typically a shorter time frame in an attempt to outperform traditional longer-term investors.

• risk

• portfolio

• speculator

• securities