Investor Education: Understanding the Stock Market

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We begin this mini-class with the term “stock market”…you think you know what it means…and you’re probably right…because “stock market” means a LOT of different things.It can refer to the physical location – the exchange – where you see frantic investors buying and selling and screaming and waving! But in other cases, it may not be a place at all, but an electronic network that allows trading worldwide. In news reports, “the stock market” usually refers to that day’s performance of the Dow Jones or S