Exercises

1. Answer these questions:

1. What is the Stock Market? What contributed to the emergence and growth of stock exchanges?

2. Where were the best organized stock markets established?

3. What general trend in the stock market development has been observed over the years of its existence?

4. What stock exchanges have become most dominant? What part do they play in the financial systems of advanced countries?

5. What are the basic types of stock markets? How are they conducted?

2. Find in the text English equivalents for the following Ukrainian phrases:

Цінні папери продаються та покупаються; головний центр торгівлі цінними паперами; фондовий ринок з’явився у результаті; засіб фінансування; не існувало єдиної моделі; складати правила для захисту чиїх-то інтересів; полегшити ведення бізнесу; упорядкований ринок, який регулюється; цінні папери, які випущені місцевими підприємствами; місцеві біржі були об’єднані у міжнаціональні фондові ринки; торгівля корпоративними цінними паперами розширилася; позабіржовий ринок; покупати та продавати цінні папери за свій рахунок; позабіржовий ринок проводить операції по телефону та за допомогою комп’ютерів; цінні папери, які незареєстровані на біржі.

3. Think of word combination with:

Market, stock, share, securities, debt, placement, trading.

4. Match the verbs from (a) with nouns from (b) below:

a) To expand To develop To resell To remove To issue To list To possess To meet To submit

b)Barriers Securities Stocks Trading Shares Infrastructure Standards Capital Documents

5. Name the adjectives formed from the following verbs and nouns:

To differ, advantage, to clean, to free, to market, to add, to depress, to rely, to close, diversity, alternative, to direct, to vary, to lower, to warn, majority, practice, finance, to accept, origin, principle.

6. Name the verbs having the same root with the following nouns.

Innovation – to innovate

Manufacture, operation, consumer, report, difference, competition, market, development, fall, seller, force, comparison, emergence, conduct.

7. Make up sentences putting the words in the correct order.

1. Stock, are, Market, means, the, which, through, are, securities, bought, sold, and.

2. Cross-border, of, equities, trading, international, expanded.

3. Stock, exchanges, as, elements, emerged, central, the, in, system, financial, all, of, countries, advanced.

4. An, investor, purchases, who, securities, new, participating, is, a, in, primary, market, financial.

5. There, two, are, types, of, basic, markets, stock.

6. Investors, complete, need, information, reliable, and, stocks, about, and, markets.

8. Complete the sentences with the following words: stock exchange, over-the-country market,”over-the-counter”, securities market, equities, preferred stocks.

1. …are the ordinary shares of a company traded in stock markets.

2. …is a market where securities are bought and sold under fixed rules, but at prices controlled by supply and demand.

3. Securities that are not listed on exchanges are traded … .

4. ..is a market in unlisted securities; stock market where shares in newer and smaller companies are traded through a computer network.

5. … is a market which enable businesses and individuals to buy and sell securities such as stocks and bonds.

6. ..are the stocks that give owners preference in the payment of dividends.