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In capital markets, volume, or trading volume, is the amount (total number) of a security (or a given set of securities, or an entire market) that was traded during a given period of time. In the context of a single stock trading on a stock exchange , the volume is commonly reported as the number of shares that changed hands during a given day.
The following list sorts countries by the total market capitalization of all domestic companies [clarification needed] listed in the country, according to data from the World Bank. Market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares. [1]
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. They are sometimes referred to ...
Stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street Thursday, as some heavyweight technology and communications sector stocks offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 fell less than 0. ...
Indexes closed lower on Tuesday, led by a slide in tech stocks. The Nasdaq dropped almost 2%, while the Dow lost more than 150 points. Data showed strong growth in the services sector last month ...
Stock market today: Asian stocks are mixed ahead of key US inflation data. Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday after U.S. indexes drifted lower on Tuesday ahead of an update on U.S. consumer ...
DJIA monthly trading volume in shares from 1929 to 2012. In 1884, Charles Dow composed his first stock average, which contained nine railroads and two industrial companies that appeared in the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a daily two-page financial news bulletin which was the precursor to The Wall Street Journal.
Good news on the U.S. economy is back to being bad for Wall Street, and the stock market slumped Tuesday following better-than-expected reports on the job market and business activity. The S&P 500 ...