Stock market

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 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] 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.[4]

Stocks trade as futures after the markets close, which can be indicative of how they will open the following morning.[5]

## Contents

* 1 See also
* 2 References
* 3 External links
* 4 Further reading

## See also[edit]

Wall Street

* free market
* Wall Street

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Harvey, Campbell R. (2011). Stock Market. Financial Glossary. NASDAQ. Retrieved on 30 October 2014.
2. ↑ 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.”
3. ↑ https://companiesmarketcap.com/
4. ↑ https://siblisresearch.com/data/us-stock-market-value/
5. ↑ https://www.marketwatch.com/

## External links[edit]

* NYSE Euronext

## Further reading[edit]

* Fraser, Steve. Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (2009) excerpt and text search

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