How do world events shake up investors?

Use these political cartoons from the NIE and Association for American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) Cartoons in the Classroom program to discuss the stock market. To address the standard, ask your students to use use the information to describe how the stock market may adjust to news of panic in world markets. 

Conduct research in the newspaper. Search for positive or negative news about a company or industry. Explain how prices of financial investments can adjust when given specific news about a company’s or industry’s future profitability. Download the Amazon, Google and more article below and scroll to the bottom of the page. How do you think investors will respond to Amazon's new products? What about Google's news about creating algorithms to track the Zika virus? How will the news that Herbalife is under federal investigation affect financial investments? Check out the "bottom line." How will Disney's cruise line news impact investors? 

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Financial Literacy Standard SS.912.FL.5.7:Describe how financial markets adjust to new financial news and that prices in those markets reflect what is known about financial assets.