The VOCABULARY of the STOCK MARKET

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True or False

1. Wall Street gets its name from a wall built across Lower Manhattan in 1653.
2. The Buttonwood Agreement was signed in 1793.
3. The first corporate stock on the NYSE was the Bank of Wall Street.
4. A person who thinks the market will go up is a bull.
5. A person who thinks the market will go down is a bear.
6. The NYSE is the second largest stock market in the U.S.
7. The NYSE carries only listed stocks.
8. Mutual funds are institutional investors.
9. Bonds are ownership of a corporation
10. Stocks are loans to a corporation.
11. The corporation gets the profit from an IPO.
12. The corporation gets the profits from all the sales of its stock in the future, after an IPO.
13. A round lot is 1,000 shares.
14. An investor can buy an ADR as a DRIP.
15. A full-service broker helps investors pick the right stocks.
16. A deep-discount broker helps investors pick the right stocks.
17. An investor can buy a stock directly from the company.
18. The stock exchange sets the price of a stock.
19. The ticker symbol C = Carrier Communications.
20. A person who doesn´t know how to choose individual stocks should buy mutual funds.

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