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Stocks and Bonds

Stocks and Bonds. Joanna Lagunas & Merissa Guerrero Period: 1. What is a Stock?. A stock is a claim on the asset of a corporation that gives the buyer a share in the corporation. How does the stock market work?. It can go to the bank and borrow money

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Stocks and Bonds

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  1. Stocks and Bonds Joanna Lagunas & Merissa Guerrero Period: 1

  2. What is a Stock? A stock is a claim on the asset of a corporation that gives the buyer a share in the corporation.

  3. How does the stock market work? • It can go to the bank and borrow money • Can borrow the money by issuing a bond • To sell or trade stock in the company How do you sell & buy stocks? • Can buy or sell through brokerage firm, discount broker, or online broker • Choose any stock that you believe will successful & rise in price

  4. What is a bond? • Simply an IOU (promise to pay) towards the government or a company • There are different types of bonds

  5. Types Of bonds? • Treasury bill notes • Municipal bonds • Corporate bonds • Inflation-indexed treasury bonds Major components of a bond Face value Maturity date Coupon rate

  6. Charles h. dow • Devised and configured the average price of stocks • Appeared on stock markets over a hundred years ago & is still used today • Know as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)

  7. DJIA • Weighted average of 30 widley traded stocks • In the New York Stock Exchange • Stock index • And index is portfolio of stocks that represent a particular market or portion of it • Used to measure changes in a market or an economy • An easy to composite funds is with a spyder or SPDR’s (Standard and poor’s depository receipts

  8. What is a spdr? • Securities representing ownership in a trust • When bought, someone is buying the stock of five hundred companies • Called “buying the market” • Instead of buying one stock you're buying more than one

  9. Work cited Aronold, Rodger A.. Economics: new way of thinking. St. Paul Minn.:EMC Pub.,2007 Print "Renaissance Connection." The Renaissance Connection, from the Allentown Art Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2013. "Money | Life Coaching With Tiffany Rae." Life Coaching with Tiffany Rae. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2013.

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