Stocks and the Stock Market

The stock exchange is a marketplace where brokers buy and sell stocks and bonds for other people. Many countries have one or more stock exchanges. Smaller stock exchanges often handle only national stock, whereas the big stock exchanges handle the stock of big international corporations.

Contents : 10  pages

• What is a corporation?
• Stocks and bonds
• Stock exchange
• Bulls and bears
• History of the stock exchange
• Stock market crash of 1929
• The world's biggest stock markets
• Exercises
• Key

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