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• What company/business would you invest in?

• Would you “put all your eggs into one basket“?

• What would you base your decision on?o The company performs stronglyo The company has high profit targetso The company belongs to a growth sectoro The company does not have many competitorso The company makes a diverse range of itemso You work for the company

• What will the return on your investments be?

• Are you in favour of safe investments or volatile markets?

• What would you do if a market crisis or crash occured?

Investments

• Do men and women have different approach to investments?

• Who receives higher returns on their investments?

• Who trades their stocks more?• What do men and women generally do

in times of financial uncertinty?• Who does more research?

Reading, pg. 92: Men and women’s investments

Stock market

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Share(s), n. – parts in which a company is divided so that investors can buy them

Stock, n. – a certain number of shares

Stock market/exchange, n. – a place where shares are bought and sold

Shareholder, n. – someone who owns a part of a company/business

Dividend, n. – part of a company’s profits which is paid to the people who have bought shares in it

Broker, v. – a person who can buy and sell shares for you on the stock exchange

Commission, adj. – an amount of money, typically a set percentage of the value involved, paid to an agent in a commercial transaction

Reading, pg. 90

Reading, pg. 911FloatDividend yieldStakeFloatation

2CommodityBull marketDemandSupply

3BondPreference forEquityConfident

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bull market VS bear market

“don’t put all your eggs into one basket“

Thank you for listening!