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Business Terms

Business Terms. Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds By (Your name). Income. The money you receive from selling your resources Including your labor and human capital. Expenses. Money that must be paid to keep a business going. Profits. The money that a company gets to keep Its earnings.

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Business Terms

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  1. Business Terms Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds By (Your name)

  2. Income • The money you receive from selling your resources • Including your labor and human capital

  3. Expenses • Money that must be paid to keep a business going

  4. Profits • The money that a company gets to keep • Its earnings

  5. Dividends • The part of a company’s profits that are given to their shareholders

  6. Capital • Another use for this word! • Money used to expand a business • Not the same as physical capital (buildings and equipment) or human capital (skills and knowledge)

  7. Capital Gain • Money that is made over what is spent

  8. Capital Loss • Loss from selling stocks for less than what you paid for them

  9. Savings • The term for money you get to keep • Not expenses • Includes investments

  10. Securities • Stocks and bonds are called securities.

  11. Portfolio • All your investments are your portfolio

  12. Equity • The value of what is owned

  13. Stock • When companies sell a part of their business to raise money they are said to issue stock.

  14. Primary Market • Investment banks buy shares of stock directly from the corporations - IPO

  15. Secondary market • Markets where stocks are bought and sold after being issued • Stock Market or Stock Exchange • NYSE • AMEX • NASDAQ

  16. Shareholders • People who own stock in a company • Also called stockholders or investors

  17. Bonds • When a company borrows money from the public, this is issuing bonds.

  18. Mutual Fund • An investment in group of related companies When you buy a mutual fund you buy stock in several companies at the same time. (remember mutual means share) Their stock symbols end with an X

  19. Diversified • A diversified portfolio is one where lots of different industries and different kinds of businesses are represented • “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!”

  20. IRA • Stands for Individual Retirement Account • Allows people to save for the future without paying taxes now

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