2. What is a “bull market”? What is a “bear market”?

3. What is a “bull market”? What is a “bear market”?
Bull Market – A market in which stock prices are rising. It is characterized by optimism, investor confidence and expectations that prices will continue to rise. Those optimists are called “bulls”.

4. What is a “bull market”? What is a “bear market”?
Bull Market – A market in which stock prices are rising. It is characterized by optimism, investor confidence and expectations that prices will continue to rise. Those optimists are called “bulls”.
Bear Market – A market in which stock prices are falling. It is characterized by pessimism and expectations that prices will continue to fall. Those pessimists are called “bears”.

5. Stock Indices
Essential Question: How are stock indices viewed as barometers of the stock market?

6. What is a stock index?
Stock Index – a statistical indicator used in measurement and reporting of changes in the market value of a group of stocks/shares.

7. Notable Market Indexes/Indices
Dow Jones Industrial Average – Index that tracks the prices of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the U.S.
Standard & Poor’s 500 – Index that tracks the prices of 500 U.S. Corporations
NASDAQ Composite – Main index that tracks the trends of NASDAQ stocks