Stock+Market

You will find links to resources on the stock market, as well as the link for the stock market game here.

What is a stock and what is the stock market?

 * Definition:** A stock (also known as an equity or a share) is a portion of the ownership of a corporation. A share in a corporation gives the owner of the stock a stake in the company and its profits. If a corporation has issued 100 stocks in total, then each stock represents a 1% ownership in the company.

A **stock market** / **share market** is a public [|market] (a loose network of economic transactions not a physical facility or discrete entity) for the [|trading] of [|company] [|stock] and [|derivatives] at an agreed price; these are [|securities] listed on a [|stock exchange] as well as those only traded privately.

A **stock exchange** is an entity which provides "trading" facilities for [|stock brokers] and [|traders], to trade [|stocks] and other [|securities]

The **New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)** is a [|stock exchange] located at 11 [|Wall Street] in [|lower] [|Manhattan], [|New York City], [|New York], [|USA]. It is the world's largest stock exchange by [|market capitalization] of its listed companies at [|US$]28.5 trillion as of May 2008[|[3]].

The **Dow Jones Industrial Average**, also referred to as the **Industrial Average**, the **Dow Jones**, the **Dow 30**, or simply the **Dow**, is one of several [|stock market indices][|Wall Street Journal] editor and [|Dow Jones & Company] co-founder [|Charles Dow]. The average is named after Dow and one of his business associates, [|statistician] [|Edward Jones]. It is an index that shows how 30 large, publicly-owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the [|stock market].[|[1]] It is the second oldest U.S. market index after the [|Dow Jones Transportation Average], which Dow also created.

A **stock symbol** or **ticker symbol** is a short [|abbreviation] used to uniquely identify publicly traded [|shares] of a particular [|stock] on a particular [|stock market]. A stock symbol may consist of letters, numbers or a combination of both. "Ticker symbol" refers to the symbols that were printed on the [|ticker tape] of a ticker tape machine.

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A **parent company** is a [|company] that owns enough [|voting stock] in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its [|board of directors]; the second company being deemed as a [|subsidiary] of the parent company. The definition of a parent company differs from [|jurisdiction] to jurisdiction, with the definition normally being defined by way of [|laws dealing with companies] in that jurisdiction.

You can often find the parent company (and then the name of the ticker symbol) by googling the product and the words "parent company".

When picking stocks, you are likely to think of popular brand names. If you are a big fan of Pizza Hut or Juicy Fruit gum, you might consider buy- ing stocks in these businesses. But, no matter how hard you look in the newspaper stock tables, you will not ﬁnd these two stocks. Pizza Hut stock is not listed in the newspaper because Pizza Hut is owned by PepsiCo, Inc. In this case, PepsiCo is a parent company, one that owns and controls another business. So to pur- chase part ownership of Pizza Hut, you must ﬁrst know that it is owned by PepsiCo. You can then buy stock in PepsiCo and thereby, indirectly, own part of Pizza Hut. You might also get stuck when trying to buy stock in Juicy Fruit gum. Juicy Fruit is a brand name, which is the popular name of a product. Brand names can be different from the names of the businesses that make those products. In this case, the product is made by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. So if you want to be part owner of the company producing Juicy Fruit gum, you would purchase Wrigley stock.

Some rules to remember:
 * Buy low, sell high
 * Buy what you know
 * The stock market is LONG TERM investing

Look up ticker symbols

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