Eco. Unit 3 Quiz 3

The AMEX ® stock symbols usually have _ letters

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You are checking up on your stocks in the newspaper. What column will tell you the volatility or risk and profit potential of a particular stock?

52 weeks high and low

Standard & Poor's ® 500 is a type of stock index favored by professionals because it includes a wider range of public companies than the _________ industrial average does.

Dow Jones SM

Calculating relationship between price of company's stock and the earnings a company makes in the entire year

PE ratio

Look closely at the volume number - if a tiny "z" is shown before the number, the volume is not given in hundreds but is the _________ of stocks traded.

actual number

one who believes the outlook for a market or stock is down.

bear

are the safest stock investment you can make, since these corporations are so large and powerful they can withstand a downturn in the economy.

blue chip stocks

What type of stock simply shows that you own part of the company?

common

First, all the _______ in a company must be issued. Then the company will begin to issue preferred stock.

common stock

A share of profits received by a shareholder is called a ______.

divedend

a dip in the market.

downturn

The activity the day before; the highest price and lowest price of the stock, along with the closing price at the end of the business day will be noted on the stock page as:

high, low, and close

The volume number is given in the _______ , so if you want to get the actual number of stocks traded, simply multiply the volume number by ________.

hundreds, one hundred

the change of the price of the stock from the previous day

net change

considered the first and lowest level of stocks.

penny stocks

Your _______ is all of the various stocks or bonds you, as an investor, hold.

portfolio

the owners of this type of stock will collect their dividends first, before the owners of common stock

preferred stock

a one to four character symbol that is like a nickname for the company

symbol

Which of these words is NOT a name for a stock? equities tickers securities issues shares

tickers

the number of stocks that were traded on the previous day

volume