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Definition: Stock Market |
Stock MarketNoun1. An exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Finance | The organised market where transactions in securities and marketable commodities are carried out under official surveillance. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Many years ago, worldwide, buyers and sellers were individuals investors and businessmen. These days markets have generally become "institutionalized", that is buyers and sellers are largely institutions whether pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds or banks. This rise of the institutional investor has brought growing professionalism to all aspects of the markets.
There are stock markets in most developed economies, with the world's biggest markets being in the USA, Japan, the UK, and Europe. There are global stock market indices that, because they delineate the global universe of stock opportunities, shape the choices and distribution of funds of institutional investors. The character of markets around the world varies, for example with the majority of the shares in the Japanese market being closely-held (by financial companies and industrial corporations) compared with the structures of ownership in the USA or the UK.
Someone who thinks that the price of a stock is about to fall can write a "put" contract with someone else who agrees to buy the stock at a fixed price. He does not have to own the stock at the time the contract is made. Again, he pays a premium. But if the stock price does fall, he can buy the stock at a low price on the market and then sell it for agreed-upon higher price.
Option contracts are traded like stocks, often by people who have no intention of exercising them. Although there is a guaranteed loss of the premium when an option is not exercised, there is enormous potential profit from trading the option itself--its price rises or falls with the price of the underlying stock. Someone who has a guaranteed buyer for 10,000 shares of stock at $35 has a contract of enormous value if the price of the stock falls to $10. He may not want to invest $100,000 to fulfill the contract and earn $350,000. But someone will want to buy the contract from him for more than he paid for it.
There are also two sorts of trades involving cash or stock not actually owned, short selling and margin buying. In short selling, someone sells stock that they don't actually own, hoping for the price to fall. They must eventually buy back the stock. In margin buying, someone borrows money to buy the stock and hopes for it to rise. Most industralized countries have requlations which require that if the borrowing is based on collateral from other stocks, then it can be at only a certain percentage of those other stocks value. Other rules include a prohibition of freeriding, that is, putting in an order to buy stocks without paying intially, and then selling them and using part of the proceeds to make the original payment.How it works
The movements of the prices in a market or section of a market are captured in price indices called Stock Market Indices, of which there are many e.g. the Standard and Poors Indices and the Financial Times Indices. Such indices are usually market capitalisation weighted.Derivative instruments
An option is a contract to buy or sell something at an agreed-upon price during a specified period. A buyer who believes that the price of a stock will rise can enter a contract known as a "call" which gives him the right to buy another's stock at a date three to nine months in the future. He pays a fee to the owner of the stock and will forfeit it if he does not exercise the option. But if the stock price rises enough, he can exercise the option and buy the stock at the fixed price, then re-sell it for a higher price to recover his premium and make a profit.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stock market."
Synonyms: Stock MarketSynonyms: securities market (n), stock exchange (n). (additional references) |
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Mart | Noun: stock market, stock exchange, securities exchange; bourse, board; the big board, the New York Stock Exchange; the market, the open market; over-the-counter market; privately traded issues. |
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Screenplays | Suppose the stock market crashes. (Some Like It Hot; writing credit: Robert Thoeren; M. Logan) Look, Mead, part of my income comes from legitimate businesses, stock market -- (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramn De Espaa) You read the profit and loss statements like a vulture, and you play the stock market like a fox, but you store your nuts away like a squirrel. (Good Morning... and Goodbye!; writing credit: Jack Moran) Be careful, Beth, because the stock market can be a cruel mistress. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
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 | Falling stock market. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stock market run over by auto cutbacks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | You and your infernal stock market have hurt Italian progress terribly. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cap Stubbs and Tippie. "My land! I made $41.73 in th' stock market, just wait till Mr. Budge hears this!". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | There is no official domestic stock market. (references) | |
Treasury bonds are traded on the stock market. (references) | ||
Some others are Bauhaus, Stock Market, and Mr. Bricolage. (references) | ||
Economic History | Slovak Rep | Slovakia's stock market is weak. (references) |
Belgium | Belgium also has a well-established stock market. (references) | |
Indonesia | This can be accomplished through the stock market. (references) | |
Political Economy | THE BAHAMAS | The Bahamian Stock Market is now up and running with 15 stocks. (references) |
EGYPT | Securities: International brokers are permitted to operate in the Egyptian stock market. (references) | |
India | India's stock market was weakened by the conflict, but the impact was relatively short-lived. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | The Spanish Stock Market comprises four stock exchanges. (references) |
Spain | These banks also operate as investors and underwriters in the stock market. (references) | |
Spain | Leading Spanish private companies and banks are listed on the stock market. (references) | |
Travel | Chile | Large-scale business is conducted through local corporations whose shares are quoted on the stock market. (references) |
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Dennis Miller | The democratization of the stock market in some respects turned many workers into their own executioner. |
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George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | The recession and the decline in the stock market slowed earnings and cut into tax revenues and created a budget deficit. |
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Expressions using "stock market": junior stock market ♦ Nasdaq Stock Market ♦ parallel stock market ♦ stock market index ♦ stock market order ♦ stock market securities ♦ the stock market. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | treg i letrave me vlerë, bursë (exchange, exhibition, fellowship, grant, grants, scholarship, stipend, stock exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سوق الأوراق المالية (shares market, stock exchange, wall street), البورصة (exchange, stock exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сделки на фондова борса, фондова борса (stock exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 股票市 (stock exchange), 股市 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | burza cenných papírù. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fondsbørs (exchange, stock exchange), børs (purse, wallet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | effectenbeurs (exchange, pit, ring, stock exchange), beurs (purse, stock exchange, wallet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sopimusmarkkinat (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over the counter market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market, unofficial market), vaihtokelpoinen arvopaperi (financial assets, investments, marketable security, securities, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), rahoitusomaisuusarvopaperi (financial assets, investments, marketable security, securities, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), OTC-markkinat (curb market, junior stock market, OTC market, over-the-counter market, parallel market, parallel stock market, second tier market, third market, unlisted securities market), National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (NASDAQ, Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System), NASDAQ (NASDAQ, Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | place boursière (stock exchange), marché financier, marché boursier, bourse des valeurs mobilières (stock exchange), bourse des valeurs (stock exchange), bourse (stipend, Stock Exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | börse (board, change, exchange, market, purse, stock exchange, wallet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρηματιστήριο (bourse, stock exchange, stockmarket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שוק "מ יות, בורס" (exchange, stock exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | részvénypiac (share market), értéktõzsde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | borsa (bag, bourse, exchange, fellowship, grant, grip, handbag, pannier, pouch, purse, sack, saddlebag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 式市 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かぶしきしじょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sthockvargey, margey ollee (cattle market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockstay arketmay mercado de ações, bolsa de valores (stock exchange). (various references) cursul valorilor (the stock market). (various references) фондовая биржа (stock exchange, stock-exchange). (various references) berza (money market, stock exchange). (various references) bolsa (bag, bagful, Bursa, exchange, grip, handbag, hand-bag, handgrip, holdall, market, pocket, poke, pouch, prize money, purse, sac, stock exchange). (various references) fondbörs (stock exchange), börskurser, aktiemarknad. (various references) menkul kıymetler borsası (securities market, security exchange, stock exchange), hisse senedi fiyatlarındaki oynamalar, borsa (bourse, change, exchange, market, money market, rialto, share market, stock exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Stock Market" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stok market. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-k-m-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: comakers, mattocks. | |
-4 letters: coaster, coaters, comaker, comakes, comates, costate, cottars, cotters, maestro, markets, matters, mattock, mockers, ostmark, rackets, restack, restock, retacks, rockets, rotates, scatter, smacker, smatter, stacker, stocker, stomate, tackers, tackets, toaster, tomcats. | |
-5 letters: actors, arkose, armets, cameos, carets, caroms, cartes, casket, caster, castor, caters, coarse, coater, comake, comate, comers, comets, comtes, corset. | |
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