What Drives the Stock Prices?

Analyze trends in the stock market using histograms. Future economists use data presented in a histogram to find periods of greatest increase and decrease. They also draw conclusions about days that would be best to invest.

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,...

What a wonderful way to begin an exploration of the Great Depression. Using this colorful and interesting presentation, teachers can give students an overview of the life in the 1920's and 1930's. The pictures, quotes and poetry used in...

As Sal introduces a series of videos on investing, he gives scholars an overview of stock investments and asset valuation. Using two hypothetical stock prices, he poses the question of relative price per share. What is expensive and what...

Students see that earnings drive stock prices. More importantly, students look for earnings growth from the continuing operations of a business.

Students see that economic news and business events can change the price of a stock. They see that the unexpected events that benefit or harm the company, in turn, moves the company's stock price up or down.

What do tulips, real estate, and stock in a pet store have in common? Find out what happens when products or services sell for much more than they are worth.

Students study the New York Stock Exchange and track stock prices throughout the school year. They create a stock portfolio with at spreadsheet program and produce quarterly graphs of their stocks performance.

Build a guide for Investing 101. Pupils research the stock market and pick a company or companies to invest $25,000. They follow their investments and keep track of profits and losses. Using what they have learned, individuals create a...

Young scholars examine the uncertainties of investing in the stock market. They look at how company profits, good or bad news, and new competition affect share prices. They write and discuss journal entries about share prices before...