Understanding the Stock Market

The stock market refers to how pieces of various companies are bought and sold.

Investing money means to make money from your money.

A share is a piece of the company that you can buy.

A corporation is any business that splits itself into different shares. In many ways, it has the same legal rights as a person.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a measure of how thirty large stocks are doing. It serves as a measure for the strength of the rest of the stock market.