Companies go public by offering a specific number of shares in their company to the public through the stock exchange. Investors then can use the stock exchange to buy and sell stocks of companies that they are interested in. While this basic description of how the stock market works is adequate enough to understand what the stock market is, to get a better understanding of how it actually works it will be important to learn about some of the terms that are commonly used when discussing the stock exchange including stock prices and market capitalization.
The main purpose of the whole stock market setup is twofold: 1)a company lists or goes public, to get money from investors for use in expansion, settling debts, etc., and 2) for investors to get into and buy into companies easily, no matter how small their share size is.
Did the grinch steal our Christmas this year?
Five days into December, I still don't feel like its almost Christmas… The weather is wet and not cold. Every morning, I sniff the air for the December chill/Siberian wind smell, but it smells like July. The chirping sounds from migratory birds that I used to hear come December are also absent. I've put up our Christmas tree, done with my Christmas gift shopping and is almost done wrapping them, but these also failed to liven up my Christmas spirit. The radio stations are not even playing Christmas songs too much these days. If you look around the metro, Christmas decorations are sparse or sad-looking. The malls are packed but if you look carefully, very few people are making purchases. Is it just me or Christmas seems to be missing this year?
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