Final Vocabulary PowerPointBrice Holmes

Stock

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

Dividends• A sum of money paid regularly (typically

quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits or reserves).

Capital Gain

•A profit from the sale of property or of an investment

Common Stock

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

Blue Chip Stock

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

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

Futures

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

Options

•A thing that is or may be chosen

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.

Mutual Fund

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

Commodities

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

Preferred Stock

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

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.