stockmarkets

Where shares trade

Stockmarkets is a less common spelling of stock markets—financial exchanges where shares of publicly traded companies are bought and sold.

The two-word form predominates in American English, while the single word appears more often in British financial writing: Asian stockmarkets tumbled overnight.

trading

exchanges

Reciprocal transfers between parties

brokers · traders · orders · transactions · buying · selling · volume · liquidity · bid · ask

analysis

charts

Visual data displays

fundamentals · technicals · valuations · earnings · dividends · yields · forecasts · research · analysts · ratings

participants

investors

Those who commit capital

pension funds · mutual funds · day traders · portfolio managers · underwriters · regulators · SEC · floor traders · algorithms · quants

events

IPOs

First public share sales

corrections · bubbles · bear markets · bull markets · recessions · booms · panics · Black Monday · dot-com · circuit breakers

indices

Dow Jones

Stock market benchmark

  • S&P 500Major stock market index
  • NASDAQElectronic securities exchange
  • FTSEBritish stock market index

Nikkei · Hang Seng · benchmarks · tracking · weighted · capitalization · components · blue-chip · rebalancing · index funds

psychology

sentiment

Felt attitude or view

  • fearEmotional response to threat
  • greedExcessive desire for wealth
  • panicUncontrollable sudden fear

euphoria · confidence · uncertainty · risk appetite · herd behavior · FOMO · speculation · optimism · pessimism · animal spirits

Opposites
market type/asset class

stockmarketsbond markets

Where debt securities trade

commodity markets · real estate markets · money markets · futures markets

investment approach

stockmarketssavings accounts

Interest-bearing bank deposits

mattress money · cash hoarding · gold bullion · real estate · collectibles

financial system function

stockmarketsbanks

Financial institutions or riversides

central banks · credit unions · lending institutions · barter systems · savings accounts

Family

market, share, stock, stocks, marketing, shares, livestock, stocking, stockpile

Familiarity
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G