Investing Vocab

a highly valuable asset, stock, or property

• blue chip

• Bear Market

• appreciation

• portfolio

the annual rate of return on a bond if the bond were held to maturity

• market

• bond

• yield

• dividend

a formal contract to repay borrowed money with interest at fixed intervals

• yield

• dividend

• bond

• market

A share of ownership in a company

• bond

• portfolio

• stock

• depreciation

increase in value of a financial asset.

• depreciate

• diversification

• appreciate

• Bear Market

the wealth and resources of a country or region

• economy

• yield

• appreciate

• blue chip

collection of financial assets

• stock

• portfolio

• depreciate

• Blue Chip

A period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices

• Bear Market

• transaction

• Bull Market

• market

A financial asset, such as a stock or a bond, that can be bought and sold in a financial market

• securities

• investing

• Bear Market

• diversification

regulates the nation's money supply by setting the discount rate, tightening or easing the availability of credit in the economy (interest rate)

• rate of return

• Federal Reserve Board

• Dow Jones Industrial Average

• Bull Market