Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Stock Market



The stock market has certainly been in the news a lot lately! But what is the stock market? How does it work? What do the numbers mean?

Here are some answers.





How stocks and the stock market work: http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/financial-planning/stock.htm

How does the stock market work? http://life.familyeducation.com/personal-finance/lifestyle-and-home/47414.html

The stock market: what does it do and how has it performed? http://mailer.fsu.edu/~dmacpher/garnet-dmacpher/teaching/ECO2023/Lectures/10_S04.ppt
Dow Jones Industrial Average: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

Standard and Poor's 500: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_500

NASDAQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ, http://www.nasdaq.com/

Russell 2000: http://www.russell.com/Indexes/characteristics_fact_sheets/US/Russell_2000_Index.asp

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