Stock Market & Finance word bank for the fill-in-the-blanks sentences below:

analyze, commission, commodities, dividend, enterprise, fluctuate, gazette, invest, investigate, leverage, market, performance, portfolio, profit, regulate, rival, tabloid

1. The Securities and Exchange Commission's primary job is to ____________ companies to ensure no illegal acts occur to hurt the investment public.

2. The institutional investor would pay a ____________ to the brokerage firm that bought him/her the greatest research idea.

3. Investors find that the daily stock sheets priced in a ____________ are much easier to handle than prices in a broadsheet newspaper.

4. The new tax law has forced companies to realize the importance of paying shareholders a ____________.

5. Professional investment manager's primary job is to deliver positive ____________ on the investment funds with which they have been entrusted.

6. A good investment trader will hope that stocks he picks will ____________ so that he can buy and sell many and over a short period.

7. Until someone sells a stock at a price above what he/she pays for it, that person has not created a ____________ that you have to report to the IRS.

8. The researcher's job was to ____________ the competitive environment and chose the company with the greatest chance of success.

9. People are surprised when they understand that agricultural ____________ like soybeans and pork bellies are important factors to watch in determining the profitability of food companies.

10. It is important to learn how to ____________ with one eye toward return and the other towards considering risk.

11. Do you believe that the Kankakee ____________, a well-known business newspaper, has one of the best financial pages in the USA?

12.The New York Stock Exchange is clearly the largest and most efficient stock ____________ in the world.

13. My ____________ of bonds, mutual funds, gold stocks, real estate and cash give me the diversification I need in today's world.

14. The NY Commodities Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade have the most difficult job to ____________ investment activity because their investment vehicles are so volatile.

15. The long-term growth of any economy is dependent upon the incentives given for people to establish a new small ____________.

16. For at least 30 years, Vanguard Mutual Funds has been a ____________ of Fidelity Funds in every investment category.

17.The use of margin in a brokerage account allows a person to use ____________ to enhance the expected return on investment.

In addition to the 17 words above, try to discover the additional 9 Stock Market & Financial words in a second Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise. The 9 words are:

appreciation, derivatives, diversify, execution, expectations, fiduciary, preservation, research, yield

1. The large mutual funds put a great emphasis on a broker's ability to deliver high quality ____________ of large million share orders.

2. My wish is that all my investments would give me at least a 10% per annum long term ____________.

3. The use of ____________ such as puts, calls, strips and straps, have allowed companies to hedge their risks of their investment pools.

4. If ____________ is the primary objective of a person's portfolio, then it should only be invested in short term bonds and cash vehicles.

5. After Bill lost 80% of his money in a huge investment that went bankrupt, he now knows first-hand the need to ____________ his investment choices.

6. It has always been true that stocks that pay a dividend will add that ____________ to any capital return.

7. The responsibility of a ____________ is to ensure that investment choices are consistent with the objectives of the client.

8. High quality ____________ and analysis done by mature stock pickers will almost always lead to successful investment returns.

9. The near-term return on a stock is influenced primarily by how the company reports results versus ____________.

Answers for the FIRST Fill-in-the-Blank sentences above: