• Explain How The Stock Market Works

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Explain how the Stock Market works: Stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and derivatives all trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The exchange also offers electronic trading products, historical trading information, and order-execution products. The NYSE is an auction market where brokers and specialists buy and sell securities for people by matching the highest bidding price with the lowest selling price. This is one of the most distinguishing characteristics of the NYSE -- unlike the NASDAQ or other electronic exchanges, the NYSE has an actual trading floor at 11 Wall Street in New York. Stocks, bonds, warrants, options, and rights are traded at 22 horseshoe-shaped installations, called trading posts, on the floor of

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