Stock Market
General Terms Earnings per share: Amt of profit each share is entitled Going Public: Company plans to sell stock Share: investor’s ownership of the profits, losses, and assets of a company Market Indices: tracks performance of specific group or market of stocks
Market Indices Dow Jones: index of 30 “Blue Chip” US stocks of industrial companies (financial, computer, retail companies) NYSE: New York Stock Exchange tracks the movements of all common stocks Nasdaq: Tracks performance of 100 of the largest most actively traded stocks
Dow Jones Coca Cola Home Depot AT&T American Express Bank of America Dupont GE
Nasdaq Stocks Amazon.com Apple Costco Comcast Google Dell