Personal Finance Vocab

A time when investments prices rise, usually during an economic recovery or boom

A decline of 10% or more in the price of a security or equity from its most recent peak

Is the strategy of spreading out your purchases, buying at regular intervals and in roughly equal amounts

A portfolio of stocks or bonds designed to copy the composition and performance of a financial market

Is the ownership of an asset or value

Managing your money regularly, moving it in and out of different investments based on your analysis

A collection of financial investments like stocks, bonds, commodities, cash and cash equivalents, including Mutual Funds and ETF's

A system or machine for buying and selling securities, or stocks and bonds

A time when investment prices fall, usually during an economic recession

In the united states, is an exchange that does its business electronically, or online, comprised of mainly tech comapanies

Tracks a basket of the 30 largest and most influential public companies in the stock market

Unexpected changes to a fund or company shares

A person or business that acts as an agent for others in the buying and selling of stocks, shares, equities, and commodities.

A fall in a country's gross national product in three successive quarters

A receipt given by a government or organization as an agreement to borrow money which will be returned at a later date with a certain amount of interest

A payment made by corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits

Traded Fund, is a collection of stocks that trade on the stock market throughout the day

Someone who provides money or resources for a corporation, government, with the expectation of financial or other gain

Investing by buying equities to own them long term

In the united states, a Stock market index