(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Current Assets
Current Assets – Resources that a company owns and could sell for cash during the year.
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(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Current Liabilities
Current Liabilities – The amount of a company’s debts payable within a year.
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Cyclical Stocks
Cyclical Stocks – Stocks of companies whose performance tends to mirror the economy. When the economy grows the stocks turn…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Day Order
Day Order – An order to buy or sell stock that expires at the end of the trading day.
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Dealer Market
Dealer Market – Dealers (market makers) serve as intermediaries between buyers and sellers with the prices they are willing to…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Default
Default – Failure to pay principal or interest when due. Defaults can also occur for failure to meet non-payment obligations,…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Delisted
Delisted – A stock that has been delisted has been removed from an exchange and cannot be traded. A company’s…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Depreciation
Depreciation – The decline in value of an asset from wear and tear over a period of time, such as…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Distribution Date
Distribution Date – Date on which the dividend payment is made.
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Diversification
Diversification – A risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. It is designed to…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Dividend Yield
Dividend Yield – A company’s latest annual dividend expressed as a percentage of its stock’s latest price. A stock has…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Dow Divisor
Dow Divisor – A special number used to calculate the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW)
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW) – The best-known measure of stock prices consisting of 30 large, well-known companies in major…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Earnings
Earnings – The amount of money that remains after subtracting the company’s operating and non-operating expenses from its revenue. Earnings…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Earnings Per Share (EPS)
Earnings Per Share (EPS) – A company’s profit divided by the number of shares outstanding.
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Economic Cycle
Economic Cycle – The pattern of changes in economic performance. There are four phases in the economic cycle (expansion, peak,…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Election Cycle
Election Cycle – The theory that the economy rises and declines based on the year of a president’s term in…
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Emergency Funds
Emergency Funds – Money saved to be used for unforeseen events.
(URL) Stock Market Glossary: Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur – A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.