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What (who) is stock market - definition
PUBLIC ENTITY FOR THE TRADING OF COMPANY STOCKS AND SHARES
Stock markets; Share market; Equity market; Stockmarket; Stock marke; Quoted company; Equities market; Sharemarket; Stock Market; Equity markets; Share markets; History of stock markets
![Offices of [[Bursa Malaysia]], Malaysia's national stock exchange (known before demutualization as Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bursa Malaysia.JPG?width=200 "Offices of [[Bursa Malaysia]], Malaysia's national stock exchange (known before demutualization as Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange)")
![Helsinki, Finland]], 1965](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helsingin-porssi-1965.jpg?width=200 "Helsinki, Finland]], 1965")
![title-link=Irrational Exuberance (book) }}</ref> In the preface to this edition, Shiller warns, "The stock market has not come down to historical levels: the price-earnings ratio as I define it in this book is still, at this writing [2005], in the mid-20s, far higher than the historical average... People still place too much confidence in the markets and have too strong a belief that paying attention to the gyrations in their investments will someday make them rich, and so they do not make conservative preparations for possible bad outcomes."](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IE Real SandP Prices, Earnings, and Dividends 1871-2006.png?width=200 "title-link=Irrational Exuberance (book) }}</ref> In the preface to this edition, Shiller warns, \"The stock market has not come down to historical levels: the price-earnings ratio as I define it in this book is still, at this writing [2005], in the mid-20s, far higher than the historical average... People still place too much confidence in the markets and have too strong a belief that paying attention to the gyrations in their investments will someday make them rich, and so they do not make conservative preparations for possible bad outcomes.\"")
![[[London Stock Exchange]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paternoster Square.jpg?width=200 "[[London Stock Exchange]]")
![Price-Earnings ratios as a predictor of twenty-year returns based upon the plot by [[Robert Shiller]] (Figure 10.1).<ref name="IE2"/> The horizontal axis shows the real price-earnings ratio of the S&P Composite Stock Price Index as computed in ''Irrational Exuberance'' (inflation adjusted price divided by the prior ten-year mean of inflation-adjusted earnings). The vertical axis shows the geometric average real annual return on investing in the S&P Composite Stock Price Index, reinvesting dividends, and selling twenty years later. Data from different twenty-year periods is color-coded as shown in the key. Shiller states that this plot "confirms that long-term investors—investors who commit their money to an investment for ten full years—did do well when prices were low relative to earnings at the beginning of the ten years. Long-term investors would be well advised, individually, to lower their exposure to the stock market when it is high, as it has been recently, and get into the market when it is low."<ref name="IE2"/>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Price-Earnings Ratios as a Predictor of Twenty-Year Returns (Shiller Data).png?width=200 "Price-Earnings ratios as a predictor of twenty-year returns based upon the plot by [[Robert Shiller]] (Figure 10.1).<ref name=\"IE2\"/> The horizontal axis shows the real price-earnings ratio of the S&P Composite Stock Price Index as computed in ''Irrational Exuberance'' (inflation adjusted price divided by the prior ten-year mean of inflation-adjusted earnings). The vertical axis shows the geometric average real annual return on investing in the S&P Composite Stock Price Index, reinvesting dividends, and selling twenty years later. Data from different twenty-year periods is color-coded as shown in the key. Shiller states that this plot \"confirms that long-term investors—investors who commit their money to an investment for ten full years—did do well when prices were low relative to earnings at the beginning of the ten years. Long-term investors would be well advised, individually, to lower their exposure to the stock market when it is high, as it has been recently, and get into the market when it is low.\"<ref name=\"IE2\"/>")
![VOC]] chamber of [[Enkhuizen]], dated 9 Sep 1606.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/VOC aandeel 9 september 1606.jpg?width=200 "VOC]] chamber of [[Enkhuizen]], dated 9 Sep 1606.")
stock market
¦ noun a stock exchange.
stock market
n.
1) to gamble, speculate on the stock market
2) the stock market closes; opens (the stock market closed strong)
stock market
(stock markets)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
The stock market consists of the general activity of buying stocks and shares, and the people and institutions that organize it. (BUSINESS)
The company's shares promptly fell by 300 lire on the stock market.
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Wikipedia
Stock market
A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange, as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies which are sold to investors through equity crowdfunding platforms. Investment is usually made with an investment strategy in mind.
Examples of use of stock market
1. By Eytan Avriel Tags: israel news, stock market Life is boring these days for stock market analysts.
2. Saudi businesswomen stock market investors have established a reputation for asking questions about the stock market and following company announcements.
3. The stock market, however, recovered slightly yesterday.
4. The stock market turnover reached SR18.4' billion.
5. Mahmoud Ahmad, Arab News RIYADH, 26 August 2005 — Experts in the stock market have warned small and middle–income group people from rushing into the stock market.