Read Each Question Carefully and Choose the Best Answer

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7.03 Task: Investments

Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.

1. Which of the following investments have a higher risk?

A) Speculative Stock

B) Real Estate

C) High-Grade Preferred Stock

D) Certificates of Deposit

2. Which of the following investments have a lower risk?

A) Speculative Stock

B) Real Estate

C) High-Grade Preferred Stock

D) Certificates of Deposit

3. Which of the following investments have a higher risk?

A) Collectibles

B) Balanced Mutual Funds

C) Money Market Accounts

D) Treasury Issues

4. Which of the following investments have a lower risk?

A) Penny Stocks

B) Growth Mutual Funds

C) Money Market Accounts

D) Treasury Issues

5. Are insured savings/checking accounts a low risk or a high risk investment?

A) Low

B) High

Review each stock-table carefully. Use the stock table to answer the questions that follow.

6. Use the stock table below to answer the following questions:

Name
Of
Company / Symbol
Of
Company / 52
WEEK
HIGH / 52
WEEK
LOW / Div / Vol / Yld / PE / Day
Last / Net
Chg
Big Lots / MMM / 112.38 / 81.98 / 2.54 / 2,591,102 / 2.28 / 17.36 / 111.42 /

Source: Wall Street Journal – 5/30/2013

a) What were the high and low prices for the past 52 weeks for Big Lots?

High – $ Low – $

b) If you owned 2000 shares of Big Lotsstock last year, what dividend did you

receive?$

c) How many shares of Big Lotswere traded yesterday?

d) What was the price at which Big Lots shares traded when the stock exchange

closed yesterday? $

e) What does the value in the Net Chg column represent? The price per

share(increased or decreased)$.

f) What is the company’s annual earnings per share. $

7. Use the stock table below to answer the following questions:

Name
Of
Company / Symbol
Of
Company / 52
WEEK
HIGH / 52
WEEK
LOW / Div / Vol / Yld / PE / Day
Last / Net
Chg
Big Lots / BIG / 42.26 / 26.69 / 7,141,392 / 11.60 / 34.93 /