1. .......... thinks that a corporation's security prices are determined by its future earnings and dividend abilities; besides studying a corporation's financial data, s/he will also examine its industry and how the economy will affect the company's core business.

2. If you're looking for adventure in the stock market world, a capital .......... fund may be just the thing for you; these are high- risk and, you hope, high-payoff funds invested in companies that show high growth potential.

3. Employees are usually not pleased when their company carries out a pension .......... plan: by replacing the pension plan backed by the company with a fixed annuity backed by an insurance company, pensioners are no longer covered by the guarantee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

4. As to their potential .........., these two species of clams are perceived as being too different from clams currently available on the market; the low response rates and shellfish dealers' unwillingness to evaluate free samples lead us to conclude that it is unlikely that there will be a widespread, mainstream demand for them.

5. .......... risk defies forecasting, though some ambitious minds never stop trying; recall how stunned everyone in the markets was by its ultimate manifestation in modern memory, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on New York and Washington.

6. In margin trading, brokerage firms loan capital to traders so they may purchase more than they would otherwise be able to; but should the market turn against the trader, and they find themselves unable to liQuidate their position, the trader can be left with a .......... balance.

7. Contributions to a simple IRA are made up of salary reduction contributions and employer contributions; you, as the employer, must make either matching contributions or .......... contributions, and may choose either method of making employer contributions on a yearly basis.

8. .......... trading is said to occur when an entity sometimes trades as a broker for customers, and at other times trades for its own account; it is Quite pervasive throughout the United States securities and futures markets as well as in financial and commodity markets throughout the world.

9. Securities which are nearly risk-free are sometimes referred to as ' .......... paper'.

10. Some businesses avoid double taxation by qualifying for the .......... theory — the incomes from mutual funds, REITs, and limited partnerships are only taxed once because interest, dividends, capital gains, etc are passed through to you; you pay tax on the income, but the business does not.