🎉 A5 - CAPITALISM: HOW THE STOCK MARKET WORKS (ASPIRE-TO-DO)
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Question 1
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Another term for "stock" is "share."
Question 2
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A stock represents a portion of ownership in a company.
Question 3
3.
If Amazon divided its company into 1,000 shares and you bought one of those shares, what fraction of Amazon would you own?
Question 4
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In real life, there are about 1,000 people who own shares of Amazon today.
Question 5
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Owning common stock means that you have the right to vote on certain matters when it comes to company business.
Question 6
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A dividend is basically a piece of the company's profit that gets paid to shareholders.
Question 7
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The main reason why companies sell stocks is because it helps them raise money they need to operate or grow their company.
Question 8
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Stock prices are usually based off of how much money a company has earned in the past.
Question 9
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Only very large companies have the ability to earn billions of dollars by selling stock.
Question 10
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When companies decide to sell stock in the stock market, they move from "private" companies to "public" companies.
Question 11
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If more people want to buy a stock, then the price of the stock usually drops.
Question 12
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Imagine that 100 people offered to buy a product that you posted for sale on Craigslist. It is very likely that you could increase the price and still have people willing to buy your product.
Question 13
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The price of a product tends to go up when there are more sellers than buyers.
Question 14
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Stocks are generally more expensive if more people want that stock.
Question 15
15.
It is possible to make a lot of money by investing in the stock market.
Question 16
16.
As long as you increase your wealth by more than 3% each year in the stock market, then you are doing better than you would by just keeping that money in the bank.
Question 17
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The first step in investing is to get an account that allows you to buy and sell stock (ex: e-trade.com).
Question 18
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The cheapest stocks to buy still cost at least a few hundred dollars.
Question 19
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The good thing about the stock market is that you can never lose the money that you invested in a company.