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[[File:Dow1925-2009.jpg|400px|thumb|Dow Jones index since 1925, in constant 2009 dollars; it covers 30 industrials on the New York Stock Exchange]]

[[File:Dow1925-2009.jpg|400px|thumb|Dow Jones index since 1925, in constant 2009 dollars; it covers 30 industrials on the New York Stock Exchange]]

A '''stock market''' is a list of [[stock]]s, or jointly held and publicly traded shares of a [[corporation]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasdaq.com/investing/glossary/s/stock-market|title=Stock Market|last=Harvey|first=Campbell R.|year=2011|work=Financial Glossary|publisher=[[NASDAQ]]|accessdate=30 October 2014}}</ref> The stocks usually bear some relation to each other: for example, in [[America]], the now misnamed [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] market is a list of longtime successful American companies, whereas the [[Nasdaq]] consists mostly of technology-based stocks. Other major cities in industrailized countries have stock exchanges, including "London, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, Toronto and Tokyo."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stockexchangesecrets.com/stock-exchange.html|title=What Is A Stock Exchange And What Does It Do?|year=2014|publisher=SES|accessdate=30 October 2014|quote=Most of the world’s industrialized nations have one or more stock exchanges. Among the largest are those in London, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, Toronto and Tokyo.}}</ref>

A '''stock market''' is a list of [[stock]]s, or jointly held and publicly traded shares of a [[corporation]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasdaq.com/investing/glossary/s/stock-market|title=Stock Market|last=Harvey|first=Campbell R.|year=2011|work=Financial Glossary|publisher=[[NASDAQ]]|accessdate=30 October 2014}}</ref> The stocks usually bear some relation to each other: for example, in [[America]], the [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] is a list of longtime successful American companies (despite its name very few of the current companies are actually industrial), whereas the [[Nasdaq]] consists mostly of technology-based stocks. Other major cities in industrailized countries have stock exchanges, including "London, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, Toronto and Tokyo."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stockexchangesecrets.com/stock-exchange.html|title=What Is A Stock Exchange And What Does It Do?|year=2014|publisher=SES|accessdate=30 October 2014|quote=Most of the world’s industrialized nations have one or more stock exchanges. Among the largest are those in London, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, Toronto and Tokyo.}}</ref>

== See also ==

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