The Stock Market - How It Works and Why It Moves

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NYSE and Nasdaq terminology opens the page, then supply and demand, the S&P 500's 500 companies against the Dow's 30, and a percent-change formula turning a $50 stock's jump to $58 into 16 percent.

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