The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) .is the primary regulatory agency of U.S. financial markets. Its job is to ensure that the markets remain fair for all investors. The following SEC sites provide useful information for investors.

Address: www.sec.gov/answers.shtml and http://www.sec.gov/investor/tools/quiz.htm.

Instructions

(a) Go to the first SEC site and find the definition of the following terms.

(i) Ask price.

(ii) Margin.

(iii) Prospectus.

(iv) Index fund.

(b) Go to the second SEC site and take the short quiz.