Stock Market Quiz- 4

1) What was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history (as of November 2009)?
Answer : Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.


2) What is the oldest stock exchange in the United States?
Answer : Philadelphia Stock Exchange 


3) What is the oldest commodities exchange in the U.S.?
Answer : Chicago Board of Trade 


4) The highest priced share of stock that ever traded was of what company?
Answer : Yahoo! Japan


5) Who said, "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest"?
Answer : Benjamin Franklin


6) What were the five oldest stock exchanges worldwide?
Answer : Antwerp Bourse 1460 
              Lyons Bourse 1506
             Toulouse Bourse 1549
            Hamburg Bourse 1558
           London Royal Exchange 1571

7) What was the first listed company on the New York Stock Exchange?

Answer : Bank of New York

8) What were the first publicly traded securities in the U.S.?

Answer : $80 million in U.S. Government bonds that were issued in 1790 to refinance Revolutionary War debt.

9) Who was the first female member of the NYSE?

Answer : Muriel Siebert, who became a member on December 28, 1967

10) What was the first African American owned NYSE member firm?

Answer : Daniels & Bell Inc., in 1971