Across
- 4. a person who risks money in hopes of a financial profit
- 5. a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations
- 6. to take possession of a property because of defaults on payments
- 7. a monetary system in which the value of currency is defined in terms of gold
- 8. minor officers of the courts
- 9. a mosaic flooring that has pieces of marble or granite set in mortar and is then highly polishes
- 11. an agent who negotiates an exchange between a buyer and a seller
- 12. closing of banks during the great depression to avoid bank runs
- 14. abbreviated term for poliomyelitis, an acute infectious disease affecting the skeletal muscles, often resulting in permanent disability and deformity
- 16. buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
- 17. to cover financial losses
- 19. monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item when buying it on credit
Down
- 1. projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use
- 2. act of buying stocks at great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise
- 3. an index, or tool, that measures the performance of the stocks of 30 large companies
- 8. persistent and heavy demands by a bank´s depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money
- 10. a dam that is curved upstream in order to transmit the major part of the water load to the abutments, or the part of a structure that directly received pressure
- 12. a long period of rising stock prices
- 13. a homeless and usually penniless wanderer
- 15. demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased on margin
- 18. aid in the form of money or supplies for those in need