Personal Finance Investment Quiz

A company's first sale of stock to the public

A broad group of similar industries

A prolonged period of rising stock prices

A request to buy or sell stock at a set price

A designation given to 100 shares of stock

A designation given to fewer than 100 shares of stock that are bought or sold

Replacing each share of stock with a larger number of lower-priced shares but usually have a guaranteed dividend

A market in which new issues of securities are sold to investors

A network of dealers who buy and sell stocks that are not listed on an exchange

A long term plan of kepping stock for several years to receive dividends and make capital gains

Replacing each share of stock with a larger number of lower-priced shares but keeping the total value of one's investment unchanged.

A market in which securities are bought from other investors

Supervision as in the government watching over the investment industry to protect investors from unlawful actions

Reducing risk by spreading your assets among several differnet kinds of investments

A large, stable company with a track record of quality for consumers and proftablity for investors

A charge that brokers earn by completing trades for investors

The total number of shares a company has sold to the public and are now held by investors

The nation's oldest stock market and lists most of the "Blue Chip" companies

The most recent trading price of a stock on a particular day

A prolonged period of falling stock prices

SEC stands for

Companies in this sector have two or more unrelated businesses in different industries This called a

If you bought an investment for $1,000 and it grew to $1,050 one year later, what is the returnon your investment (ROI)?

Two key advantages to investing ain a mutual fund include

The three issuers of bonds are: