ESL go.com's "stock market" business English vocabulary and reading class
First, read this short excerpt from an article about stocks. Then try to guess the definitions of each word.
Flight to Quality Coming in Stocks?
Retrieved from http://www.thestreet.com/markets/rebeccabyrne/10116522.html on 10/02/2003
By R. Byrne 09/30/2003
A sharp decline in stocks recently has some analysts wondering whether now is the time to get out of speculative tech names and into quality issues that have largely been ignored this year.
Stocks that zoomed higher in the third quarter were among some of the biggest laggards on Tuesday, as investors began to question whether the economic recovery priced into these issues will actually materialize. Meanwhile, a handful of tobacco and consumer products stocks were finally getting some respect.
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