Noun

Singular stock market

Plural stock markets

stock market (plural stock markets)

  1. A market for the trading of company stock.

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Sat Feb 6 02:42:49 2010

A stock market is a public market (a loose network of economic transactions not a physical facility or discrete entity) for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.

The size of the world stock market was estimated at about $36.6 trillion US at the beginning of October 2008. The total world derivatives market has been estimated at about $791 trillion face or nominal value, 11 times the size of the entire world economy. The value of the derivatives market, because it is stated in terms of notional values, cannot be directly compared to a stock or a fixed income security, which traditionally refers to an actual value. Moreover, the vast majority of derivatives 'cancel' each other out (i.e., a derivative 'bet' on an event occurring is offset by a comparable derivative 'bet' on the event not occurring.). Many such relatively illiquid securities are valued as marked to model, rather than an actual market price.

The stocks are listed and traded on stock exchanges which are entities of a corporation or mutual organization specialized in the business of bringing buyers and sellers of the organizations to a listing of stocks and securities together. The stock market in the United States is NYSE while in Canada, it is the Toronto Stock Exchange. Major European examples of stock exchanges include the London Stock Exchange, Paris Bourse, and the Deutsche Börse. Asian examples include the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and the Bombay Stock Exchange. In Latin America, there are such exchanges as the BM&F Bovespa and the BMV.

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Fri Feb 5 10:24:47 2010

What is the relationship between one stock market and another foreign stock market?
Q. I'm an Indonesian and I am told that my country stock market going down has something to do with US's stock market going down. Can anyone please help me explain the relationship? Or if this is true at all? Thanks a lot!
Asked by 5p4rk - Sat Aug 18 11:01:38 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. This is called arbitrage, when stocks get cheaper in one market, investors will not buy in another unless the price is driven down also. There are of course other reasons, the main one is that economies are interrelated around the world and when an economy is sneezing, the neighbor one is in danger of catching a cold. Stock markets rise and fall in "sympathy" with each other, even stock investors can show love ;-)
Answered by pgreen - Sat Aug 18 11:11:45 2007

Stock Market Help- What is good to invest in now in the Stock Market?
Q. I am looking to invest in the stock market but I am new to it. I was wondering what are some good stocks to but now especially with the economy. Also does anyone have any tips for a beginner?
Asked by Dante - Thu May 21 10:02:10 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. AIG was be a best stock to invest if you plan to invest for a long term, because AIG is too big to fail and beside AIG no longer need government bailout money. if you invest in AIG are now you returning profit is 10-30 times in 3-5 years.
Answered by sam - Thu May 21 13:12:41 2009

What is the stock market and how do people become rich off of it?
Q. I've heard a lot about the stock market recently but I don't know much about it. What is it? Also, I've heard that people have gotten rich off of it, how did they get rich?
Asked by Barockman Obama - Mon Sep 22 18:58:22 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. this is a very complicated question so I am going to over simplify it. The Stock market is a "place" (I say place even though it is not really a place) where people can buy or sell stock. Stock is ownership of a company. to get rich of the stock market there are two ways to invest in the stock market that i will call traditional and gambling. in traditional you assume that the market will go up and down but in the long run it will go up and it will go up quite a bit and if you invest in such a way that allows you to invest in the whole market you will make some pretty good returns. in gambling (which may be a bad name for it) you pick a few stocks that you think will go up big over a short amount of time then what you can do is buy what… [cont.]
Answered by so got board - Mon Sep 22 19:15:09 2008

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