Stock Market Dictionary

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  • Created on: 09-05-13 11:46
Bull Market
A market in which share prices are rising to encourage buying
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Bull Pool
Insider dealing between wealthy stockholds, "artificially inflated" the prices of stocks
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Buying on the Margin
The purchase of an asset by making a "down payment" then borrowing the rest of the money from a broker
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Dividend
Payments made by a corporation to it's shareholder members
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Dow Jones Index
Index of the stock market (average)
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Federal Reserve Board
Centeral banking system of the USA created in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act (7 members)
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Government Securities
A bond issued by the national Government, generally promising to pay a certain amount on a certain date ("sovereign bonds")
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Rediscount Rate
Interest rate charged to member banks when they borrowed from the Federal Reserve System (rose/lowered)
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Speculator
Person who trades deriatives/commodities/bonds/equitars/currencies with a "higher than average" risk in return for a "higher than average" profit
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Stock Market
Public entity for the trading of company stock/sahres at an agreed price
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Ticker Tape
Earliest digital electronic communications medium, which transmitted stock price information over telegraph lines
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Insider dealing between wealthy stockholds, "artificially inflated" the prices of stocks

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Bull Pool

Card 3

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The purchase of an asset by making a "down payment" then borrowing the rest of the money from a broker

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Card 4

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Payments made by a corporation to it's shareholder members

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Card 5

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Index of the stock market (average)

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