Buyers and sellers of stocks cause the prices to change each day as they decide how valuable those stocks are to them. Journal Read the stock market section of the business page of a newspaper for three days. Identify five terms or ideas you do not understand which seem important to understanding how the stock market works. Share these unknowns with your classmates and teachers so everyone can help one another understand key ideas while learning about the stock market. Answers to the Stock Market IQ Quiz Stocks are items found in the storeroom of a grocery store.
Stocks are shares of ownership of companies.
These shares are sold to the public in markets around the world. Only rich people invest in the stock market. Millions of people invest in the stock market through mutual funds, individual purchases of stock, and pension investments. Very wealthy people make up only a small portion of stock market investor population. The United States Government sells most stocks on the stock market.