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Bull market: a period of generally rising prices. See Market trend. Closing print: a report of the final prices for the day on a stock exchange. Fill or kill or FOK: "an order to buy or sell a stock that must be executed immediately"—a few seconds, customarily—in its entirety; otherwise, the entire order is cancelled; no partial ...
Stock exchange. Interior hall of the Helsinki Stock Exchange in Helsinki, Finland, 1965. A stock exchange is an exchange (or bourse) where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell shares (equity stock), bonds, and other securities. Many large companies have their stocks listed on a stock exchange. This makes the stock more liquid and thus more ...
Pages in category "Stock market terminology". The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of major stock exchanges. This is a list of major stock exchanges. Those futures exchanges that also offer trading in securities besides trading in futures contracts may be listed both here and in the list of futures exchanges. There are twenty one stock exchanges in the world that have a market capitalization of over US$1 trillion each.
Stock telegraph ticker machine invented by Thomas Edison. A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock or security on a particular stock exchange. Ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) which provide a shorthand for ...
A stock certificate is a legal document that specifies the number of shares owned by the shareholder, and other specifics of the shares, such as the par value, if any, or the class of the shares. In the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, and Australia, stock can also refer, less commonly, to all kinds of marketable securities. [4]
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed " The Big Board ") [4] is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization. [5][6][7] The NYSE trading floor is located at the New York Stock Exchange Building on 11 Wall Street and 18 ...
Stock market indices may be categorized by their index weight methodology, or the rules on how stocks are allocated in the index, independent of its stock coverage. For example, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Equal Weight each cover the same group of stocks, but the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, while the S&P 500 Equal Weight places equal weight on each constituent.