1. Vocabulary for Financial Literacy
By: Joshua Tate

2. Stock
a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.

3. dividends
a pro-rata share in an amount to be distributed

4. Capital gain
profit from the sale of assets, as bonds or real estate.

5. Common stock
stock that ordinarily has no preference in the matter of dividends or assets and represents the residual ownership of a corporate business.

6. Blue chip stock
A term used to describe stocks of high-quality, financially sound corporations.

7. Dow Jones
short for Dow Jones Industrial Average, first published 1884 by Charles Henry Dow (d.1902) and Edward D. Jones (d.1920), later publishers of "The Wall Street Journal."

8. futures
a condition, especially of success or failure, to come

9. options
the power or right of choosing.

10. bond
something, as an agreement or friendship, that unites individuals or peoples into a group; covenant

11. Mutal fund
professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to buy stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities

12. commodities
an article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service.

13. Preferred stock
stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.

14. New York Stock Exchange
the largest stock exchange in the U.S., located in New York City