stock market

noun

: stock exchange sense 1

: a market for particular stocks

: the market for stocks throughout a country

Examples of stock market in a Sentence

We lost money in the stock market. International stock markets saw declines at the end of the trading day.

Recent Examples on the Web History shows the stock market has been flat on average during the 20 government shutdowns since 1976, according to Keith Lerner, chief market strategist at Truist Advisory Services. —

Matt Egan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023 Shares of British chip designer Arm slipped below their IPO price of $51 in midday as the broader stock market also declined. —

WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023 The city’s stock market, which is seen as a proxy for China’s economy, is among the world’s worst performing this year. —

Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023 Investors had long feared that possibility, which meant that some of the Fed's more hawkish moves led to stock market sell-offs. —

Marley Jay, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023 The stock market can often seem less like a financial index and more like an opaque narrative, one with winners and losers, risk and reward, and not necessarily linked to any company’s inherent, real-world value. —

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023 Sixty-three percent said that the stock market would fall (the NASDAQ is up 37 percent, the S&P 500 18 percent); 72 percent said crime rates would rise (compared to 2022, violent crime from January to June 2023 had fallen in almost every category). —

Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023 The same investors who thought the stock market was such a dreadful place last year have changed their tune. —

Michael Joseph, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023 Still, even as the stock market gets more receptive to IPOs, no one expects a return to the heady heights of 2020 and 2021. —

Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023 See More

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