Vocabulary Development: Words Associated With Stock Exchange SS1 English Studies Lesson Note

Stock exchange is an organized market for buying and selling corporate and other securities. It is a place where people buy and sell shares in companies.

Words associated with the stock exchange are:

Bonds, shares, holders, bull market, profit, dividend, company, buy, Free market, Bank, unit trust, Stock market, brokers, trade, delivery, margin, trading account, bid, market capitalization, intraday, market order, portfolio, liquidity etc.

MEANING OF SOME OF THESE WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STOCK EXCHANGE:

1. Shares holders: An individual, institution or corporation that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a company.

2. Shares: This is the part ownership of a company and represents a claim on the company’s assets and earnings.

3. Intra-day: This is when you buy and sell a share on the same day.

4. Bull market: when the share market is rising and the public is optimistic that the price will

continue to rise.

5. Dividend: The share of profit that you get from the company at the end of the year or months.

ASSIGNMENT

Write about the people and places associated with the stock exchange.