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Finance & Trading: Finance & Trading: Vocabulary & ExpressionVocabulary & Expression
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• Financial center— a place that there are many banks
and some financial institutions• Stock market— a place where company shares are
bought and sold• Stock exchange— to make money on the stock market,
also called “bourses”
• Broker— a person who buys and sells things,
for example, shares in a business, also called “stock broker”
• Dealer— a person whose business is buying
and selling a particular product• Trader— a person who buys and sells things
as a job
• Speculator— a person who buys and sells goods or sha
res in a company in the hope of making a profit
• Foreign exchange— the system of exchanging the money of o
ne country for that of another country, a place where money is exchanged, also called “forex”
• Commercial paper— short-term lending to business
• Bond— an agreement by a government or a
company to pay you interest on the money you have lent
• Gross margin— difference between the selling price
of a product and the cost of producing it
• Pre-tax profits— the money a business makes before
payment to the government
• Interest rate— the percentage of a sum of money charg
ed for its use • Trading – the process of buying, selling, or
exchanging goods, within a county or between countries
• Demand – the ability and willingness of people
to pay for them
• Turnover – the rate at which a particular kind of
article is sold• Bullish – tending to cause, or hopeful of rising
prices• Overdraft— a draft in excess of the credit balance • Mortgage— a conditional conveyance of property as s
ecurity for the repayment of a loan
• Barrier – prevent or control their movement• Bearish – expecting, or tending to cause falling pri
ces• Blue chips – an industrial share that is expensive and
in which people have confidence
• Bull market – in which prices are rising• Rally – back into a proper or favorable state
or position • Panic selling – done in a state of panic
Market Market MovementsMovements
Those words are used to talk about Those words are used to talk about rising and falling share pricesrising and falling share prices
Going upGoing up advance climb increase rise gain ground
Stores and consumer goods gained ground after the good inflation news and on hopes of interest rate cuts.
Going up by a small or Going up by a small or moderate amountsmoderate amounts
edge ahead edge higher edge up firm
Amber Day’s share price edged ahead 1p to 35p as news of Mr. Green’s departure outweighed the figures.
Going up by large amountsGoing up by large amounts
jump shoot ahead leap shoot up roar ahead skyrocket roar up soar rocket surge
Forte’s shares were among the week’s best performers jumping 20p to 309p.
Going downGoing down decline lose ground drop retreat fall slide head south Racal Electric, which traded 11
million shares, declined 12 to 218.
Going down by a small or Going down by a small or moderate amountsmoderate amounts
dip edge down drift edge lower ease slip Full-year profit edged down 8% to $60.8
million, or 76 cents a share, from $66.4 million, or 89 cents a share.
dive nosedive plunge plummet tumble
Even before the resignations were announced, the index dove 32.5 points to close at 2,129.4.
Going down by large amountsGoing down by large amounts
collapse crash crumble slump
Pittard’s share price tumbled when the price of sheepskins collapsed.
Going down fast by very Going down fast by very large amountslarge amounts
• 盈餘配股 (Stock Dividend from Retained Earnings)
• 公積配股 (Stock Dividend from Capital Reserve)
• 開盤價 (Opening Price) • 收盤價 (Closing Price) • 成交量 (Trading Volume) • 營業利益率 (Operating Profit Margin) • 稅前淨利率 (Pretax Margin)