history
Across
- 6. - act of buying stock at great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise
- 7. - buying stock by paying only fraction of the stock and borrowing the rest
- 10. - projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds
- 11. - persistent and heavy demands by a banks depositors
- 13. - an agent who negotiates an exchange between a buyer and a seller
- 15. - to take possession of property because of defaults on payments
- 17. - a dam is curved upstream in order to transmit the major part of the water load to abutments
- 18. - aid in the form of money or supplies for those in need
- 19. - a mosaic flooring that has pisces of marble or granite set in mortar and is then highly polished
Down
- 1. - an index or tool that measures the performance of the stock of 30 companies
- 2. - a homeless person
- 3. - monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item when buying it on credit
- 4. - to cover financial losses
- 5. - a person who risks money in hopes of financial profit
- 8. - abbreviated term for poliomyelitis
- 9. - a long period of rising stock prices
- 12. - a monetary system in which the value of currency is defined in terms of gold
- 13. - minor officers of the courts
- 14. - demand by a broken that investors pay back loans made for stock purchased on margin
- 16. - a system for buying and selling stock in corporations