The stock market is where investors connect to buy and sell investments — most commonly, stocks, which are shares of ownership in a public company. Many, or all, of the products featured on this ...

Stock indexes are collections of stocks meant to represent the market or a portion of it—they are used by investors as benchmarks against which to compare the performance of their own portfolios.

When it comes to a particular stock rather than the market at large, capitulation can occur as a result of disappointing news (e.g., dropping sales or missed earnings estimates) being released ...