MATH 1819 Business Mathematics stock project

The background work

Define each of the following in a document and place it in the dropbox.

1.  What is stock and what is bonds?

2.  What does it mean to be a stock holder?

3.  Why does a company issue stock?

4.  What is common stock?

5.  What is preferred stock?

6.  What is the difference between the primary market and secondary market?

7.  What is an exchange?

8.  What is a brokerage?

9.  What are bull and bear markets?

10. What are chicken and pig investors?