Final Vocabulary PowerPoint

1. Final Vocabulary PowerPoint Brice Holmes

2. Stock • The goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution.

3. Dividends • A sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits or reserves).

4. Capital Gain • A profit from the sale of property or of an investment

5. Common Stock • Shares entitling their holder to dividends that vary in amount and may even be missed, depending on the fortunes of the company.

6. Blue Chip Stock • a common stock of a nationally known company whose value and dividends are reliable; typically have high price and low yield

7. Dow Jones • an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange

8. Futures • A financial contract obligating the buyer to purchase an asset (or the seller to sell an asset)

9. Options • A thing that is or may be chosen

10. Bond • A debt investment in which an investor loans money to an entity (corporate or governmental) that borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a fixed interest rate.

11. Mutual Fund • An investment program funded by shareholders that trades in diversified holdings and is professionally managed.

12. Commodities • A raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee

13. Preferred Stock • Stock that entitles the holder to a fixed dividend, whose payment takes priority over that of common-stock dividends.

14. New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) • Founded in 1792, the NYSE is the world’s largest stock trading exchange, based on the total market capitalization of its listed securities.