Across
- 3. accounts established to encourage people to save money for retirement
- 4. original amount of money invested or lent
- 9. price paid for using someone else's money, expressed as a percentage of the amount borrowed
- 10. an interest-bearing account at a financial institution
- 12. rise in the general or average price level of all the goods and services produced in an economy
- 15. interest credited daily, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually on both principal and previously credited interest
- 16. a share of a company's net profits paid to stockholders
- 17. money paid regularly, at a particular rate, for the use of borrowed money
- 18. the ease with which savings or investments can be turned into cash
Down
- 1. profit realized from the sale of property, stocks or other investments
- 2. issued by a bank to a person depositing money in an account for a specified period of time
- 5. the chance of losing money
- 6. invest in a variety of stocks, bonds, money market accounts, etc., in order to spread risk
- 7. an ownership share or shares of ownership in a corporation
- 8. a certificate of indebtedness issued by a government
- 11. amount an asset (stock, real estate) would sell for on the current market
- 13. the amount of money invested in stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other instruments
- 14. a pool of money used by a company to purchase a variety of stocks, bonds or money market instruments