The Stock Market is a Market of Stocks
Brian Ransom, CFA, MBA, MS Research Director Signature Wealth Management Group Duh, Brian! It’s purposefully redundant to call the stock market a market of stocks. But sometimes I wonder if people truly understand what the “stock market,” is. By definition, the stock market is a basket of assets ranging from ~$500,000 in market value all the way up to $3.4 trillion. As of the end of 2023, there were approximately 55,214 stocks that could be purchased throughout the world. On any given day, those stocks move in a wide variety [...]