14. What is a Stock?

Everyone should know what a stock and a bond are - this video gives a quick intro to that. What stocks and bonds are has a lot to do with how providers of capital interact with users of capital (through equity (which includes stocks for many large companies) and debt (which includes bonds for many large users of capital).

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[DreadAces]

i dont even know what equity means :(

[savingandinvesting]

@DreadAces Check out videos 3, 11 and 17. Hope that helps.

[manguera9]

the Wall Street dropped 513 points 2 days ago ,

so how many millions of dollars is one point in the wall street?

[savingandinvesting]

@manguera9 This is not directly possible to calculate with Dow Jones Industrial Ave - the index that dropped 513 points. The DJIA is price-weighted - drop of 4.3% means that prices of 30 stocks in index weighted by price (not size/market-capitalisation) dropped 4.3%. On that day, S&P 500 (500 largest cos&market cap weight) dropped 4.8% on $11 tr. market cap -> $528bn wiped out. The Wilshire 5000: broadest index (and market cap weighted) fell 5.05%, representing: just under $700bn wiped out.

[zohreh85]

what is common stock?

[savingandinvesting]

@zohreh85 Common stock is ordinary stock or shares in the company and that is what this video refers to. When people say stock they are referring to common stock - also known as ordinary shares sometimes. The other type of 'stock' is a preference stock but that would be very clearly identified as such and is has different characteristics - stock is otherwise common stock and a common stock is a stock. Hope that helps - best regards, Michael.

[whatisstockexchange]

thanks

[hbloch1]

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[unrivaled37]

Hey thankyou! This helped me a lot. Im studying AP economics :)

[FrankDinner27]

What is stock? It's a security that's what it is

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