Stock exchange

A stock exchange, share market or bourse is a place where people meet to buy and sell shares of company stock. Some stock exchanges are real places (like the New York Stock Exchange), others are virtual places (like the NASDAQ).


 International Stock Exchanges 
The most important stock exchanges in the world include:
 American Stock Exchange
 Baku Stock Exchange
 Bombay Stock Exchange
 Euronext
 Frankfurt Stock Exchange
 Helsinki Stock Exchange
 Hong Kong Stock Exchange
 Johannesburg Securities Exchange
 London Stock Exchange
 Luxembourg Stock Exchange
 Madrid Stock Exchange
 Milan Stock Exchange
 Nairobi Stock Exchange
 NASDAQ
 National Stock Exchange
 New York Stock Exchange
 National Stock Exchange of Pakistan
 São Paulo Stock Exchange
 Korea Stock Exchange
 Shanghai Stock Exchange
 Singapore Exchange
 Stockholm Stock Exchange
 Taiwan Stock Exchange
 Tokyo Stock Exchange
 Toronto Stock Exchange
 Zürich Stock Exchange

 Great depression 
On October 29, 1929, the American stock market crashed on what is known as Black Tuesday.  A "crash" means that the prices of stock were lowered greatly, and no one wanted to buy it. Instead, they sold the stock for cheap prices.  Also, banks were trying to buy stock with people's money (stored inside the bank), so the banks ran out of money too. Because people could not get money back from banks, only a few people could afford the cost of living. This was the start of the Great Depression.

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