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| While money is invested, it grows, earning interest or yielding some form of return |
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| Portion of ownership in a company |
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| Ownership of a company divided into small parts |
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| Payment made to shareholders on a per share basis from the company's earnings |
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| Pool cash investments into various investments to create a portfolio |
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| Seek maximum long-term growth |
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| Bundle of stocks and bonds that are in an index that tracks the overall movement of a market |
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| Represent secured, or financially valuable, claims on the part of investors |
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| Represents a financial claim of money owed by a company to the bondholder |
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| Primary Securities Markets |
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| The market in which new stocks and bonds (but not mutual funds) are bought and sold by firms and governments |
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| Secondary Securities Markets |
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| Where existing stocks and bonds are traded |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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| Government agency that regulates US securities markets |
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| Buying several different kinds of investments, rather than just one, so that the risk of loss is reduced by spreading the total investment across more stocks |
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| The proportion of funds invested in each of the investment alternatives |
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| Combination of all your investments |
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| Current assets minus current liabilities |
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| Loan from a bank obtained without pledging collateral |
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| A portion of a loan balance kept in a separate non-interest-bearing account with the bank in place of collateral |
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| Investors providing venture capital |
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| Sets the borrower's obligations as well as the financial returns for lenders |
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