Either a specific location (New York Stock Exchange) or the over-the-counter network in which sellers of stock trade shares with buyers of stock The stock market performs an essential role by connecting the financial and real economies
A general term referring to the organized trading of securities in the various market exchanges and the over the counter (OTC) market
an organized way for 1) people to buy and sell stocks and 2) corporations to raise money There are three widely known stock exchanges: The New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (you hear it called NASDAQ on the news)
The stock market consists of the general activity of buying stocks and shares, and the people and institutions that organize it. The company's shares promptly fell by 300 lire on the stock market
An institution which trades stock (shares) for people who submit orders For each company traded, a book is kept Figure 4 1: An example of a book for some stock
The system for buying and selling units of ownership (called shares or stock ) in a corporation or mutual fund
The set of institutions that facilitate the exchange of stocks between buyers and sellers A stock market can be an actual place, but with the growth of electronic transactions a large fraction of stock market transactions are not centrally located in a particular location
The display that represents the stock market that railroad shares are traded on This is a crude representation of a real stock market