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Market
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   Also found in: Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.17 sec.
Market
Usually refers to the equity market. "The market went down today" means that the value of the stock market dropped that day.

Market. Traditionally, a securities market was a place -- such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) -- where members met to buy and sell securities.

But in the age of electronic trading, the term market is used to describe the organized activity of buying and selling securities, even if those transactions do not occur at a specific location.



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