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[[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> | [[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> | ||
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Revision as of 04:54, September 15, 2020
A stock market is a list of stocks, or jointly held and publicly traded shares of a corporations.[1] 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."[2]
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.[3]
Stocks trade as futures after the markets close, which can be indicative of how they will open the following morning.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Harvey, Campbell R. (2011). Stock Market. Financial Glossary. NASDAQ. Retrieved on 30 October 2014.
- ↑ What Is A Stock Exchange And What Does It Do?. SES (2014). Retrieved on 30 October 2014. “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.”
- ↑ https://companiesmarketcap.com/
- ↑ https://www.marketwatch.com/
External links
Further reading
- Fraser, Steve. Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (2009) excerpt and text search
