study material for economics vocab CH 12 - Ponder
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| current yield | percent of return paid on an investment
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| money market | market where money is loaned for periods of less than one year
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| financial asset | claims to property or income such as a bank deposits
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| Stockbroker | person who buys or sells equities
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| Roth IRA | type of IRA favored by people who plan to retire in a higher tax bracket
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| Risk | situation in which the outcome is not certain but the probabilities of different outcomes can be estimated
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| equities | stocks that represent ownership shares in corporations
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| pension | regular payment made to retired workers who have worked for a company for a minimum number of years
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| call option | right to sell a share of stock at a specified price in the future
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| bull market | strong market with prices moving up for a long period of time
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| Individual Retirement Account (IRA) | long-term, tax-sheltered deposits people set up to help provide income during retirement
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| capital market | market where money is loaned for more than one year
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| put option finance company | firm that makes loans to consumers and buys installment contracts from merchants who sell goods on credit
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| tax-exempt | when the government does not tax interest paid on an investment
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| put option | right to sell a share of stock at a specified price in the future
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| 401(k) plan | tax-deferred investment and savings plan to which many employers contribute matching funds
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| portfolio diversification | holding a large number of stocks so that increases in some will offset unexpected declines in others
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| mutual fund | company that sells stock in itself to individual investors and then invests the money in stocks and bonds of other corporations
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| Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P500) | popular benchmark of stock performance that uses the price changes of 500 representative stocks as an indicator of overall market performance
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| bear market | mean market in which prices of equities decline for a long period of time
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