stock market

Example Sentences

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The gold-platinum ratio suggests the stock market is living on borrowed time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Yes, but you get it back because there is less volatility in the stock market.

From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026

The assumed resumption in the flow of maritime traffic through the passageway was good news for the U.S. stock market and helped ease concerns over a global shortage of oil.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

A survey of hundreds of Barclays online brokerage clients during the 2008-09 financial crisis found that their willingness to take risk shriveled as the stock market crashed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

They wanted to hear what Eisman had to say, clearly, but the stock market was distracting them from the show.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis