Fundamentally, a stock is simply a share of the ownership within a company. When buying a stock, what's really happening is that a small piece of that business is being purchased, meaning that if you own one share of Apple, you technically own a tiny fraction of the corporation itself. But why do companies decide to issue stocks in the first place? Usually, it is because they themselves require money to grow. Through selling shares to the public, firms can raise funds that he

At its core, a market is just a place where buyers and sellers meet. That could be: Stock Market  → where people buy and sell shares of...