Stock Market Vocabulary

When share prices are expected to fall by 20% or more

• Bear Market

• Bond

• Bull Market

• Capital Gains

When asset/stock prices surge to higher levels than their actual value

• Bull Market

• Capital Gains

• Economic Bubble

• Dow 30

Buying & selling stock within a single day

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio

• Dividend

• Growth Stocks

• Day Trading

A loan to a corporation or government

• Bond

• Sector

• Volume

• Yield

Private company becomes public by selling shares

• Market Index

• Capital Gains

• Initial Public Offering (IPO)

• Exchange

Pools of investments from shareholders used to "mutually" buy investments like stocks, bonds, etc.

• Market Index

• Market Volatility

• NASDAQ

• Mutual Funds

Tracks the performance of a certain collection of stocks, like the S&P 500, DOW 30 or the NASDAQ

• Market Volatiltiy

• Mutual Funds

• Value Stocks

• Market Index

Well-known companies with a history of growth

• Bond

• NASDAQ

• Blue-Chip Stocks

• Stock Portfolio

A marketplace where stocks are bought & sold

• An Exchange

• Market Index

• Market Volatility

• Mutual Funds

Measure of how much and how often the value of the stock market fluctuates

• Market Index

• Value Stocks

• Recession

• Market Volatility