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The Language of Financial Markets Quiz
Bowl Game Board
Invest in
This
Potent
Index or
Investments Exchange
Earn It
Who am I?
Financial
Markets
Potpourri
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Invest in This:
A debt investment in which an investor
loans money to an entity (corporate or
governmental) that borrows the funds
for a defined period of time at an
agreed interest rate.
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The correct answer is…
Bond
10
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Invest in This:
An ownership share or
shares in a corporation.
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The correct answer is…
Common
Stock
20
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Invest in This:
A company that pools money from
investors and uses it to buy stocks
or bonds on the investors’ behalf.
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The correct answer is…
Mutual Fund
30
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Invest in This:
A stock that often pays no
dividend, but the stockholder gains
if the price of the stock increases.
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The correct answer is…
Growth Stock
40
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Invest in This:
An ownership share in a corporation
with a guaranteed dividend that is
paid before dividends are paid on
common stock.
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The correct answer is…
Preferred Stock
50
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Potent Investments:
Buying stock by paying a percentage
of the purchase price (typically 50
percent) and borrowing the balance
from a broker.
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The correct answer is…
Buying on Margin
10
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Potent Investments:
An investment fund normally with a
limited number of investors focusing
on a specific type of investment
strategy. These tend to be subject to
less regulation and fewer restrictions
than many other investments.
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The correct answer is…
Hedge Fund
20
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Potent Investments:
The right, but not the obligation, to
buy or sell a specific amount of a
given financial asset at a specific
price during a specified period of
time.
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The correct answer is…
Option
30
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Potent Investments:
The degree of uncertainty
associated with the return on an
asset or the value of an asset.
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The correct answer is…
Risk
40
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Potent Investments:
A stock transaction that allows an
investor to make money on a stock
expected to fall in value. This
transaction involves the immediate sale
of share not owned by the seller, who
expects to buy them back later at a lower
price.
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The correct answer is…
Short Selling
50
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Index or Exchange:
Stands for American Stock
Exchange, formerly an
independent market but now part
of the New York Stock Exchange.
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The correct answer is…
AMEX
10
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Index or Exchange:
The most commonly known stockmarket indicator and is an index of
thirty large and well-known
companies.
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The correct answer is…
Dow Jones
Industrial Average
20
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Index or Exchange:
Founded in 1971, this stock market is
the world’s largest in terms of trading
volume and is the home to many
technology stocks including Apple,
eBay, Intel, and Yahoo!.
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The correct answer is…
NASDAQ Stock
Market
30
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Index or Exchange:
The oldest stock exchange in the
United States, founded in 1792 and in
2007 merged with the European stock
exchange Euronext.
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The correct answer is…
New York Stock
Exchange
40
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Index or Exchange:
Stands for the Standard and Poor’s
500 Stock Index. The index
includes 500 large and varied
stocks.
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The correct answer is…
S&P 500 Stock
Index
50
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Earn It:
A profit realized from the sale of
property, stocks or other
investments.
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The correct answer is…
Capital Gain
10
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Earn It:
A percentage of a stock trade (buy
or sell) paid to a stockbroker.
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The correct answer is…
Commission
20
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Earn It:
A share of a company’s profits
paid to shareholders.
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The correct answer is…
Dividend
30
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Earn It:
The market value of anything
being offered for sale.
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The correct answer is…
Price
40
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Earn It:
Money earned from an investment.
The money could be profits,
interest, appreciation or a
combination.
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The correct answer is…
Return
50
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Who Am I?
A professional who buys and sells
stocks for individuals and
institutional customers.
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The correct answer is…
Broker
10
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Who Am I?
Someone who buys and sells
stocks from his or her own
accounts or the accounts of the
firm he or she works for.
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The correct answer is…
Dealer
20
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Who Am I?
An organization (an insurance
company or pension fund, for
example) that invests in the stock
market.
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The correct answer is…
Institutional
Investor
30
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Who Am I?
A financial firm that agrees to
underwrite a new issue of stocks
or bonds and sell them to other
investors.
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The correct answer is…
Investment Banker
40
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Who Am I?
A person who owns stock;
sometimes called a shareholder.
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The correct answer is…
Stockholder
50
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Financial Markets Potpourri
A stock that pays a regular
dividend.
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The correct answer is…
Income Stock
10
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Financial Markets Potpourri
The first sale of stock by a private
company to the public.
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The correct answer is…
Initial Public
Offering
20
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Financial Markets Potpourri
The ease with which savings or
investments can be turned into
cash.
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The correct answer is…
Liquidity
30
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Financial Markets Potpourri
A network of securities dealers
connected by a computer network
to buy and sell stock without a
centralized trading floor.
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The correct answer is…
Over-the-Counter
Market
40
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Financial Markets Potpourri
The division of the outstanding
number of shares into a higher
number of shares. The purpose is
to lower the price of the stock to
attract more buyers.
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The correct answer is…
Stock split
50
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