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Buy A Stock Essay

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Stock investing can be fun, also challenging, but if you are not familiar with them, things can mix up in your head.

Just to be sure what stocks are, these are paper assets that companies issue when they want to raise money. When you buy a stock you will actually own a part of that company, so you become interested in how that company is doing.

Some basic info are needed before you invest in a stock or in several stocks:

• When a company sells stocks, they must be registered with a stock exchange and have a ticker symbol. The symbol is the short version of the company's name, and sometimes investors know that company by its ticker. Apple Inc. has the ticker AAPL, Google has GOOG, and they are both listed on New York Stock Exchange.

• Stocks

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