Stock Market Terminology Review

A licensed specialist who helps investors buy and sell stocks and bonds.

People who own stock in a corporation.

Demand is the number of shares offered for sell at any one moment.

An association of two or more people operating a business.

Stocks in relatively new firms that don't have an established track record of success.

Stocks can only be bought and sold on the stock exchange.

The positive difference between the cost of a share and amount you sell that share for.

Any company can sell shares on the open market.

A phrase which means that stock market is going up.

A phrase which means the stock market is going down.

Shares in the ownership of a corporation

The stock that all corporations must issue.

The rate of return on an investment.

A business owned by one person

Stocks are very liquid because they can easily be sold to turn into cash.

Created by an investment company, which purchases the securities of many companies.

When you buy stock, you are buying part of a partnership.

The average investor buys stock hoping that the stock's price will rise.

Place where stocks and bonds are bought and sold.

Blue-chip stocks are safer than speculative stocks.

Companies sell stock to raise money and provide funding for growth of their business.

If a company fails, common stockholders are paid before preferred stockholders.

A business made up of a number of owners but acts as a single person.

The part of the profits of a corporation that each shareholder receives.

A positive return on stock when you sell stock for more than the purchase price.