A. A stock market is a public market a loose network of economic transactions not a physical facility or discrete entity for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price these are securities listed on a stock exchange as wall as those only traded privately.
Q. What is the difference between a public and a private company?
A.The different between a public and a private company is that public company is one whose stock is traded by the public.
Q. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
A.The Dow Jones Industrial Average, also referred to as the Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow 30, or simply the Dow, is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street.
A. A blue chip is the nickname for a stock that is thought to be safe, in excellent financial shape and firmly entrenched as a leader in its field.
Q. What is the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ?
A. NASDAQ is run mainly on-line and NYSE actually has a building where the trades take place.
Q. What is a mutual fund and how do they operate, why can they be good?
Q. What is a mutual fund and how do they operate, why can they be good?
A. A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests it in Stocks, Bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities. The mutual fund will have a fund manager that trades the pooled money on a regular basis. The net proceeds or losses are then typically distributed to the investors annually.
Q. What are some of the biggest companies on the stock market (in total value of their stock?
Q. What is the PE ratio of a stock?
A. The most common measure of how expensive a stock is.
Q. What is a stock dividend?
A. A stock dividend is a dividend that is paid to shareholders in the form of additional shares of stock instead of cash.
Q. What are some of the biggest companies on the stock market (in total value of their stock?
- General Electric Company
- Wal-Mart Stores
- con-Edison
- Apple
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- Nicor Inc. (GAS)
- Google Inc. (GOOG)
Q. What is the PE ratio of a stock?
A. The most common measure of how expensive a stock is.
Q. What is a stock dividend?
A. A stock dividend is a dividend that is paid to shareholders in the form of additional shares of stock instead of cash.
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