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A business quiz to pair with section 2, chapter 1 of "Business and Personal Finance"
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An example of a business to consumer incentive is...
Tax rebate
Loyalty program
Employee of the month
Higher wages
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What is a stock?
Protects from financial risk
Money loaned to a business
Ownership in a company
Manages money
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What is a bull market?
Stock prices rising
Stock prices remaining the same
Stock prices falling
Stock dividends falling
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What is a financial market?
Company that creates portfolios of stocks
A store that sells stocks and bonds
Where insurance policies are bought and sold
Medium for buying and selling financial products like stocks
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What encourages specific behavior?
Incentive
Stock
Demand
Insurance
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What is a bond?
Ownership in a company or government
Collection of stocks, like a mutual fund
Fungible good
Money loaned to a company or government
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What is the purpose of insurance?
Protect from financial risk
Manage stocks
Issue securities
Increase profits
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What is the P/E ratio?
Principal/exhange
Price/earnings
Product/expectations
Power/energy
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What type of stock is sold on the NYSE?
OTC stocks
Red chip stocks
Common stock
Preferred stock
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What is an example of a depository institution?
Investment banker
Stock brokerage
Insurance company
Credit union
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What best describes stock prices?
Changing slowly over time
Changing by the second when the market is open
Constant, rarely changing
Changing by the second
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An example of a government to citizen incentive is...
Low interest rates for savers
Tax deductions for college
"Children eat free"
High interest rate for borrowers
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What is a blue chip stock?
Stock in the technology sector
30 largest stocks
Stock of a large, established company
Stock in the snack food industry
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What is a bear market?
Stock prices falling
Stock prices staying the same
Stock prices rising
Dividends rising
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What is an example of a non-depository institution?
Insurance company
Savings and loan
Bank
Credit union
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Foreign markets impact the US market
No
Yes
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What are the two US financial markets?
Commodities and mercantile exchanges
NYSE and NASDAQ
Nikkei and HSI
Dow Jones and S&P 500
