Equity ownership in highly regarded investment-quality companies that tend to be well established, older, and have the ability to pay dividends in good and bad years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is based on 30 stocks which are primarily blue chip stocks. A formal certificate of debt, usually issued by corporations or units of government. A measure of the quality, safety, and potential performance of a bond issue. The value of an asset, calculated as actual cost minus allowances for Depreciation.
Book values can be more or less than market values.
A firm that buys and sells securities and mutual funds. A period of rising prices in a financial market. A day on which the financial markets are open for trading.