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What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us? WorksheetWhat Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us? Worksheet
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Federal Reserve Bank
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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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2012
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What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us?

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Explain the four categories of financial indicators (commodity prices, stock indexes, interest rates, and yield spreads), and help your class members understand how changes in this data can affect decisions regarding consumer spending, loans, and retirement plans.

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dollar exchange rate, spot prices, future prices, commodity price, social studies

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  • Includes detailed table of financial market indicators alongside their definitions and significance

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Common Core

RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.4

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