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| Shares or portions of ownership in a corporation. |
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| The most prevalent type of stock that companies offer, represents the true ownership of the firm. |
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| A distribution of a portion of the corporation's profits. |
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| Stock that carries less risk of loss because preferred shareholders have claim to the company's assets before the common shareholders if business losses force the corporation to close. |
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| A person who generally works for a brokerage company & who specializes in buying & selling stocks on behalf of his clients. |
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| The fee paid for a stockbroker's services. |
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| Stock traders physically present on the trading floor to execute requested trades. |
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| An electronic message board used to indicate stock prices & transactions. |
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| Initial Public Offering (IPO) |
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| The initial sale of a company's stock through an investment bank. |
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| Locations at which stock is traded. |
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| New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) |
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| The most well-known & reputable stock market in the world. |
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| The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, the largest exchange that does not have a trading floor. |
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| American Stock Exchange (AMEX) |
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| A lesser-known but still reputable American stock market. |
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| A group of stocks that analysts use to help identify stock trends in specific industries. |
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| Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) |
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| The most well-known American stock index. |
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| Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500) |
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| A commonly reported investment index that includes five hundred stocks & is intended to give an even broader perspective on business in the United States than the DJIA. |
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| Privately managed stock portfolios. |
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| A collection of stocks from different individual corporations. |
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| Actively buying & selling stocks for the purpose of taking advantage of short-term price changes. |
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| Stock prices rising in an industry or across the entire market simply because of rising expectations & rising in excess of the corporation's true value. |
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| Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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| A governmental agency founded to ensure that corporations provide accurate & current information to the public about their financial situations & their business dealings. |
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