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Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Diversification | An investment strategy in which you spread your investment dollars among industry sectors. Reducing risk by combining different investments whose prices aren't likely to move in step with one other. |
| Industry | A group of companies that make the same products;i.e pharmaceutical companies. |
| Portfolio | A collection of investments owned by one individual or organization. |
| Risk | The chance of losing all or part of an investment. |
| Bonds | An IOU that a company or government sells when it borrows money. Bonds are called fixed income investments because they pay a fixed amount of interest to the bondholder who purchases this IOU. |
| High Yield Bonds | To attract investors, the issues of these bonds pay a higher rate of interest than investment grade bonds with the same maturity. They are rated below investment grade bonds are also called junk bonds |
| Issuer | An entity which issues and is obligated to pay principal and interest on a debt security. |
| Interest rate | Compensation paid or to be paid for the use of the money. Interest is generally expressed as a percentage rate. |
| IOU | Means as it sounds I owe you means debt too. |