Watch Love & Money columnist Jeff Opdyke and his wife Amy discuss how kids have so little free time these days, thanks to homework and organized activities. (Sept. 30).
When Sosoliso Airlines flight 1145 crashed in Nigeria in 2005, 60 schoolchildren were among those who died. The Journal`s Dan Michaels reports from the home of one parent who lost three children in the accident. (Oct. 1).
WSJ`s Neal Boudette takes a look at two of the militant groups that think their union leadership is selling out to General Motors. (Sept. 28).
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A stock market or equity market is a private or public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives of company stock at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.
The size of the world stock market is estimated at about 36.6 trillion US at the beginning of October 2008 1. The world derivatives market has been estimated at about 480 trillion face or nominal value 12 times the size of the entire world economy. The value of the derivatives market because it is stated in terms of notional values cannot be directly compared to a stock or a fixed income security which traditionally refers to an actual value. Many such relatively illiquid securities are valued as marked to model rather than an actual market price.
The stocks are listed and traded on stock exchanges which are entities a corporation or mutual organization specialized in the business of bringing buyers and sellers of the organizations to a listing of stocks and securities together. The stock market in the United States includes the trading of all securities listed on the NYSE the NASDAQ the Amex as well as on the many regional exchanges e.g. OTCBB and Pink Sheets. European examples of stock exchanges include the London Stock Exchange the Deutsche Brse and the Paris Bourse now part of Euronext.
