Thursday, December 13, 2007

Understanding The Stock Market

Watching the numbers roll by on the bottom of your screen during a news cast might seem like nonsense to you. Those numbers are very important to many people because they make their fortune with stocks. They steadfastly watch the stock markets wanting to see how their investment is doing.
To understand the stock market you first need to understand what stocks are. Stocks are the capital raised by a company when they sell shares. Shares are offered through the stock market and the money taken in from those becomes the company?s stocks.
There are several major stock exchanges in the world where shares are traded. Company?s stocks are increased and decreased each day.
One of these stock markets is the NASDAQ. NASDAQ stands for National Association of Securit View the rest of this article


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