stock market vocab
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- a stock exchange in New York City. Most of the stocks on this exchange are relatively small companies.
- American Stock Exchange
- things that are owned by individuals or businesses that can be converted into cash, such as money in bank accounts, accounts receivable, land, buildings, fixtures, and machinery
- assets
- stock markets are falling
- bear market
- high-priced common stocks that have been strong, profitable stocks for a long period of time
- blue chip stocks
- certificates of ownership of portion of a debt that is due to be paid by a government or corporation to an individual; usually bearing a fixed rate of interest.
- bonds
- stock prices are rising
- bull market
- the wealth, money or property owned by an individual or business.
- capital
- an economic system in which goods and services are produced by private individuals and groups who control the production, compete with one another, and whose goalis to make a profit.
- *capitalism
- money that is made (a profit) by selling an asset like a home or stocks.
- capital gains
- the price a stock broker charges to take care of buying or selling stock.
- commission
- fractional shares of ownership in a business; partial ownership of a corporation through the ownership of stocks. Most people who own stock, own ______ _______.
- common stock