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| a favorable critical estimate |
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| the increase in value of an asset between the time it is bought and the time it is sold |
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| the proprietorship element in a corporation usually divided into shares and represented by transferable certificates |
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| an individual share of something distributed |
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| stock other than preferred stock |
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| stock guaranteed priority by a corporation's charter over common stock in the payment of dividends and usually in the distribution of assets |
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| governance of securities transactions on the secondary market (after issue) and regulate the exchanges and broker-dealers in order to protect the investing public. |
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| a broker who executes orders to buy and sell securities and often also acts as a security dealer |
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| an obligation made binding by a money forfeit |
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| an open-end investment company that invests money of its shareholders in a usually diversified group of securities of other corporations |
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mutual fund's price per share or exchange-traded fund's (ETF) per-share value. |
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| the trade in short-term negotiable instruments (as certificates of deposit or United States Treasury securities) |
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| a market in which securities or commodities are persistently rising in value |
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| a market in which securities or commodities are persistently declining in value |
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passive investment in securities, none of which entails
active management or control of the securities' issuer by the investor |
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| reducing risk by investing in a variety of assets |
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| a preliminary printed statement that describes an enterprise (as a business or publication) and that is distributed to |
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| investment in a security at regular intervals of a uniform sum regardless of the price level in order to obtain an overall reduction in cost per unit |
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| a sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals |
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| a person's property in land and tenements |
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| the person appointed by a testator to execute a will |
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| a legal declaration of a person's wishes regarding the disposal of his or her property or estate after death |
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| one to whom something is entrusted |
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| a document in which the signer requests to be allowed to die rather than be kept alive by artificial means if disabled beyond a reasonable expectation of recovery |
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| assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something |
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| a court that has jurisdiction chiefly over the probate of wills and administration of deceased persons' estates |
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