chapter 9 review

The amount of money you invest is called

• principal

• growth

• coupon rate

• dividends

A piece of the ownership of a company is called a(n)

• dividend

• stock

• principal

A corporation that does not sell its stock to the general public is called a(n)

• privately held company

• public company

• non

Ups and downs in the stock market are known as

• fluctuations

• inflation

• non

Upward trends in the stock market are called

• expansion

• explode

• decay

When companies share profits with stockholders, this is called

• dividend

• divide

• stock split

• growth

Spreading out risk in your investments is called

• investment

• dessert

• diversification

• multi investment

If you lend money to a company in exchange for receiving interest, you are buying

• investing

• stock

• bonds

Bonds sold by cities or towns are called

• coupon bond

• municipal bond

• city bonds

• us saving bonds

Regularly buying investments with a set amount of money each month without regard to the price at the time is called

• averaging

• dollar cost averaging

• dollar cost

• non