response: The stock market can also be called the equity market or share market. That is where you buy and sell stocks. The stock represent ownership claims on businesses.
history: I want to teach my family about investing by buying them a few shares of stock, but I really don't know much about it.
knowledge: A stock market, equity market or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include ''securities'' listed on a public stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.