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| Bond | A form of lending to a company or the government |
| Brokerage firm | Facilitates the buying and selling of investments from a stock exchange |
| Capital gain | Unearned income received from the sale of an asset above its purchase price |
| Dividend | The share of profits distributed in cash |
| Index | A group of similar stocks and bonds |
| Inflation | The rise in the general level of prices |
| Investment | Assets purchased with the goal of providing additional income from the asset itself but with the risk of loss |
| Investment risk | The possibility that an investment will fail to pay the expected return or fail to pay a return at all |
| Market price | The current price that a buyer is willing to pay |
| Maturity date | The specified time in the future when the principal amount of the bond is repaid to the bondholder |
| Mutual fund | Created when a company combines the funds of many different investors and then invests that money in a diversified portfolio of investments. |
| Rate of return | The total return on an investment expressed as a percentage of the amount of money saved |
| Risk | The chance of loss from an event that cannot be entirely controlled |
| Speculative investments | Have the potential for significant fluctuations in return over a short period of time |
| Stock | A share of ownership in a company |
