| A | B |
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| Stocks | Shares in a company |
| corporation | company with multiple owners |
| 1792 | 24 merchants signed an agreement to meet and sales stocks |
| buttonwood tree | place where stock trading started in New York over 200 years ago |
| NYSE | largest stock exchange in the US in value |
| Wall Street | where the NYSE is located |
| securities trading | trading of stocks and bonds |
| stock symbol | the abbreviation used for companies traded on the stock exchange |
| NASDAQ | stock exchange using lots of automated computers to aid the purchase and sale of stocks |
| Investors Goal | Buy low and sale high |
| supply and demand | determines the price of stocks |
| bids | auction process for getting a price of a stock |
| Stock Broker | people who help find a buyer and seller of stocks |
| Commission | fee charged by a stock broker |
| Bull Market | Prices are rising on the stock market |
| Bear Market | Prices are falling on the stock market |
| S & P 500 | Top 500 companies traded on the stock market |
| Dow 30 | Top 30 companies traded on the stock market |
| Risk | factor that make the stock market a speculative investment |
| Money from stock sales goes towards | Hire employees, build factories, purchase computers and other equipment, etc... |
