| | 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> | | 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> |
| − | [[Market capitalization]] is the amount a company is worth in its publicly trade stock, and a ranking of the companies having the highest capitalization is easily accessible.<ref>https://companiesmarketcap.com/</ref> The total market capitalization of all the publicly traded stocks in the [[United States]], including the [[New York Stock Exchange]] and [[NASDAQ]], was about 36 trillion dollars as of September 30, 2020.<ref>https://siblisresearch.com/data/us-stock-market-value/</ref> | + | [[Market capitalization]] is the amount a company is worth in its publicly trade stock, and a ranking of the companies having the highest capitalization is easily accessible.<ref>https://companiesmarketcap.com/</ref> The total market capitalization of all the publicly traded stocks in the [[United States]], including the [[New York Stock Exchange]] and [[NASDAQ]], was about $41 trillion as of December 31, 2022. That total stock market value is not much larger than the national debt, which was nearly $32 trillion as of March 10, 2023.<ref>https://www.usdebtclock.org/</ref> |
| | Stocks trade as [[futures]] after the markets close, which can be indicative of how they will open the following morning.<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/</ref> | | Stocks trade as [[futures]] after the markets close, which can be indicative of how they will open the following morning.<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/</ref> |