Write a journal discussing risk and return as it relates to investing in stocks.

Prompt
Write a journal discussing risk and return as it relates to investing in stocks.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Investment Risk: Explain key risks associated with investing in stocks.
Investment Return: Discuss events that can cause the price of a stock to increase or decrease.
Risk-Return Relationship: Explain the relationship between risk and return and how this relationship impacts stock investment decisions, using examples to support your claims.
Reflection: Describe whether you make stock-investment decisions in your personal life and how you do or would make those decisions.
Consider the following in your response: Would your decision-making process change if you needed to make stock-investment decisions for a business? Why or why not?