vocabulary
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| stock | a piece of ownership of a company
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| share | one individual piece of stock
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| Dow Jones | an averaged number representing the values of 30 U.S. "blue-chip" stocks. The DJIA is the most well-known market indicator in the world
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| Nasdaq | refers to two different things. First is the largest electronic stock market in the U.S. Second it is the popular stock index
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| Big Board | another name for the New York Stock Exchange
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| S&P 500 | a stock index published by Standard & Poor's. It measures 500 U.S. stocks that are supposed to be representative of the overall stock market
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| bull market | occurs when stock prices are rising faster than their historical averages. It can last months or even years.
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| bear market | occurs when stock prices are falling faster than their historical averages. It can last months or even years. It is the opposite of a bull market.
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| market crash | when stock prices have dropped dramatically. One of the worst crashes was Black Tuesday, which occurred on October 29, 1929 and led to the Great Depression
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| insider trading | when anyone, including employees, trades using non-public company information. This is considered illegal
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