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This 4-page paper discusses various financial instruments (stocks, bonds and equity) and determines the investment risks. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and funds were fairly safe. However, the age of corporate America also led to the age of investing in corporate America through a variety of other investment instruments including money
markets, stocks, bonds and equity securities. Each of these financial instruments have different parameters and different outcomes (not to mention varying degrees of risk) for the investor in question.
First there are the money accounts, which range from the afore-mentioned savings accounts to money market accounts. In both cases, money is "given" to
the institutions in question, who then turn around and lend it to other entities. In both cases, there is a "charge" for lending the money, which consists of interest.
The difference between a standard savings account and a money market account is that the money market account offers a higher interest rate, in exchange for a larger-than-normal deposit (Money
Market Account, 2009). Furthermore, many money market accounts have restrictions on the amount of transactions an investor can make in a given month (Money Market Account, 2009).
Many times, investors will take money from their savings accounts and/or money market accounts, to buy stocks on the stock exchange. Stocks are actually
"pieces" of a particular company that is being traded publically. Investors buy these pieces and become "shareholders," which means that can benefit from profits the company makes (these profits are
in the form of quarterly dividends). On the market, stocks are valued based on demand - if demand for a particular stock increases, the price will go higher. If there
is too much of a particular stock on a market, or if reports that the company earnings werent so great comes out, the stock price goes lower. People investing in
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