share market
Britishnoun
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a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
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a place where securities are regularly traded
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a share-market speculator
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the prices or trading activity of a share market
the share market is buoyant
Example Sentences
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Australia’s share market has joined the festive cheer, with the ASX index rising 0.4% in the Christmas Eve session, with financial stocks, mining and gas companies and tech among the gainers.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2021
President Xi Jinping said the new share market will be in the capital Beijing, during a speech to the International Fair for Trade in Services.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2021
Hopes of yet more stimulus have helped sparked a massive rally in the Chinese share market.
From Reuters ● Apr. 23, 2015
In Europe, a resolution of Italy’s two-month political stalemate through the formation of a new coalition government at the weekend boosted sentiment on the bonds of heavily-indebted euro zone governments and the share market.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2013
After a preliminary survey this company did no work, but, under pretext of waiting for tranquil times, watched the fluctuations of the share market.
From The Awakening of China by W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons) Martin
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