stock market
a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
the market for stocks throughout a nation: The stock market reacted strongly to the president's speech.
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How to use stock market in a sentence
Downloads also jumped in Brazil, Japan, and Germany, a country that has been culturally wary of the stock market, according to Apptopia.
The American pastime of retail trading is going global thanks to GameStop | John Detrixhe | February 12, 2021 | QuartzThe new administration is working on a major stimulus package to keep the economy moving ahead, and yet the stock market is soaring.
Mortgage rates stuck in neutral amid economic uncertainty | Kathy Orton | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostGameStop has 47 million shares available to trade in the stock market.
How the rich got richer: Reddit trading frenzy benefited Wall Street elite | Douglas MacMillan, Yeganeh Torbati | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostArtificially manipulated markets cause investors to lose faith in the stock market as a whole, and result in capital being allocated inefficiently.
What makes CartaX interesting is that it could allow for much faster and more frequent secondary sales at companies based on the same sort of computerized trading models that currently power the stock market.
Carta’s startup liquidity service CartaX conducts first transactions on its own cap table | Danny Crichton | February 4, 2021 | TechCrunch
On Friday, the stock market hit new highs—even as wages were stagnating.
With Immigration Move, Obama and the Welfare Party Strike Again | Lloyd Green | November 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYes, the stock market is booming but overwhelmingly Americans are unhappy with their economic situation—and for good reason.
Voters Remind D.C. That the Economy Still Sucks | Stuart Stevens | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne month later to the day, the stock market crash of Black Tuesday signaled the start of the Great Depression.
How to Save Silent Movies: Inside New Jersey’s Cinema Paradiso | Rich Goldstein | October 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe stock market wasn't quite as dismissive of Murdoch's $80 billion bid as Time Warner was.
Don’t Count Rupert Murdoch Out Yet: Why The Magnate Hasn’t Given Up on Time Warner | Daniel Gross | July 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe economy added jobs steadily through the first quarter, and the stock market hovered around record highs.
The U.S. Economy Had a Hiccup, Not a Heart Attack, This Year | Daniel Gross | May 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd yet, some of us really believe that there are higher faculties in man than the ability to manipulate the stock market.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairIt's the most illogical thing in the world, if we except the stock market and other women's gowns.
The Lieutenant-Governor | Guy Wetmore CarrylHe had developed what I regarded as an innocent intellectual recreation which he called stock-market meteorology.
Tono Bungay | H. G. WellsThere is no possible defense of pot-hunting, whether it be upon a trout brook or in the stock market.
Fishing with a Worm | Bliss PerryStocks—the stock market—railroad shares—how they are bought and sold—do you know anything about them?
The Rise of Roscoe Paine | Joseph C. Lincoln
British Dictionary definitions for stock market
another name for stock exchange (def. 1)
the usual US name for stock exchange (def. 2)
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Cultural definitions for stock market
A market in which stocks are bought and sold (see stock exchange). Also, the general condition of the sale of securities in a corporation.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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