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Background: stock and shares (categories of shares according to the…
Background: stock and shares
1) company to go public
2) flotation or IPO
3) investment bank
undetwrite the share issue
4) company commission
a due diligence report
5) issue a prospectus
stocks
common stock
preferred stock
treasury stock
shares
ordinary shares
preference
shares
cumulative preference shares
convertible preference shares
own shares
forms of issue
of new shares
rights issue
company is listed or quoted
on the secondary market
over-the-counter markets
stock exchanges
market makers
quote bid and offer prices
have spread or mark-up
stockbrockers
place buying and selling orders
trading hours
measured by stock indexes
DJIA in New York
FTSE 100 index in London
companies are not obliged
to pay a dividend
to capitalize part
of earnings
scrip issue
to buy back some of shares
to retain earnings
categories of shares according
to the classification of investors
and financial journalists
income shares
defensive shares
growth shares
value shares
blue chips
financial journalists call
different types of investors
bears
sell shares expecting prices to fall
stags
buy newly issued shares
in the expectation that prices will rise
bulls
buy shares expecting prices to rise