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stock market
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public entity for the trading of company stocks and shares
The stock market is a public place where people can buy and sell shares of ownership in companies. It matters because it allows companies to raise money for growth and gives people a way to invest their savings and potentially build wealth.
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- Instance of
- economic activity
- Subclass of
- artificial object
- Operator
- stock exchange
- Image
- Philippine-stock-market-board.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Stock market
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Encyclopedic overview
A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called as shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies that are sold to investors through equity crowdfunding platforms. Investments are usually made with an investment strategy in mind.
Size of the market
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stock market” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.