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stock market

[stok mahr-kit] / ˈstɒk ˌmɑr kɪt /
NOUN
stock exchange
Synonyms
STRONGEST
stock exchange
WEAK
American Stock Exchange Amex Big Board Chicago Board of Trade Dow Jones NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations New York Stock Exchange Wall Street board bourse commodities exchange futures exchange the market

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Bad news stirs even greater interest among investors who see only prospects for the stock market to keep setting records.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Here’s how they did on average, relative to the overall stock market, in the 30 days before and the 90 days after they touted the change.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

The stock market is supposed to be an efficient integrator of all available information, but in the short run, anything can happen.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

As you are comfortable investing in the stock market and you don’t plan to retire until you’re 70, you could probably hold more in stocks.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

Three years later the rabbi married once again, and in 1929, two days before the stock market crash, Danny was born in the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok