Quiz for Securities Market

What are the basic financial motives for investing in stocks?

a) Dividend

b) Interest rate

c) Participation in management of the company

d) Capital gains

e) A and D

The information that is connected to the issuer of securities and is not generally known or published by such company for general information but which if published or known is likely to affect the price of the securities is called:

a) Insider information

b) Privileged information

c) Regulated information

d) Price sensitive information

e) Hypothetical information

Bond types are:

a) Coupon bond

b) Floating rate bonds

c) Index linked Bonds

d) Convertible Bonds

e) All of the above

Characteristics of Bonds:

a) Maturity

b) Nominal value

c) Nominal interest rate

d) Debt instrument

e) All of the above

What is a capital gain?

a) The difference between a higher selling price and a lower purchasing price

b) The difference between a purchasing price and a selling price

c) The difference between the price on the OTC market and the stock exchange price of the securities

d) The difference between the brokerage and the stock exchange price of the securities

e) A and B

What is the name of the project that the Macedonian Stock Exchange developed together with the stock exchanges of Sofia and Zagreb, supported by EBRD:

a) TRADENET

b) SEE LINK

c) SEINET

d) BESTnet Analitycs

e) None of the above

Which of the following is not a defining quality of a bond?

a) Dividend yield

b) Maturity

c) Face value

d) Coupon payment frequency

e) None of the above

Stock income is:

a) Fixed interest

b) Variable interest

c) Variable income

d) Fixed income

e) None of the above

An organized securities market is:

a) OTC market

b) Stock exchange

c) Official market

d) Regular market

e) None of the above

What is the main difference between brokers and dealers?

a) A broker is a person who executes the trade on behalf of others, whereas a dealer is a person who trades business on their own behalf

b) A dealer is a person who executes the trade on behalf of others, whereas a broker is a person who trades business on their own behalf

c) There is no difference

d) Brokers and dealers trade business on their own behalf

e) None of the above