Economics - Stock Market Flashcards

The use of income today that allows for a future benefit.

Where buyers and sellers exchange financial assets.

A group of a wide range of stocks.

<p>The possibility for loss on an investment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Profit or loss made on an investment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The practice of distributing investments among different financial assets.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A market where securities are bought and sold.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Profit made from the sale of securities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A share of ownership in a corporation that gives the holder voting rights and a share of the profits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A share of ownership in a corporation giving the holder a share of profits but, in general, no voting rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Buys and sells securities for customers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Measures and reports the change in prices of a set of stocks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A situation in which stock market prices rise steadily over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A situation in which stock market prices decline steadily over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The average price of 30 high performing stocks, used as a measure of general market trends.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>America's largest electronic stock market.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stock exchange based in New York City considered the largest equities-based exchange in the world based on total market capitalization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A share of ownership in a corporation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The practice of making high-risk investments with borrowed money in hopes of getting a big return.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A portion of stock.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The division of each single share of a company's stock into more than one share.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A business that specializes in trading stocks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A share's portion of the company's profit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thirty top performing stocks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Financially motivated crime committed by business or government officials.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a person who has been entrusted with money or property takes it for his or her own benefit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a person passes a false or worthless instrument such as a check with the intent to defraud or injure another person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a person uses inside, confidential, or advance information to trade in shares of publicly held corporations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The act of artificially inflating the price of stocks by brokers so that buyers can purchase a stock on the rise.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A fraudulent investment plan in which the investments of later investors are used to pay earlier investors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Common stock has voting rights, while preferred stock has no voting rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Income stocks pay dividends when the company makes a profit, while growth stocks reinvest all profits back into the company.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>NYSE is the largest exchange with a physical location, while NASDAQ is the largest electronic exchange.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mutual funds are much safer because they are groups of stocks that represent a large variety of industries.</p> Signup and view all the answers