How to Use stock market in a Sentence

stock market

noun
  • We lost money in the stock market.
  • International stock markets saw declines at the end of the trading day.
  • When the stock market soars, the state reaps a hefty chunk.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • Not a bad backdrop for the stock market, at least for now.
    WSJ, 18 July 2023
  • At the same time, investors may want to stick with the safety of the U.S. stock market.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The title of stock market king is once again up for grabs.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • What could be in store for the stock market during the second half of 2024?
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 1 July 2024
  • Then there’s the Lakewood High School stock market club.
    John Benson, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Yet the French stock market is up 11 percent this year.
    David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Rate cuts often act like steroids for the stock market.
    Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But the stock market kicked off the second quarter last week on a sour note.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
  • And billions of dollars have flowed out of the country’s stock markets.
    Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The same investors who thought the stock market was such a dreadful place last year have changed their tune.
    Michael Joseph, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Bonds Bonds are the classic tool for balancing out risks in the stock market.
    Anna-Louise Jackson, wsj.com, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The Bank of Japan stepped into the stock market for the first time since March, buying funds worth some $470 million.
    Megumi Fujikawa, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Of the world’s 20 largest stock markets, 14 have hit all-time highs recently.
    Jan-Patrick Barnert, Fortune, 18 May 2024
  • Such threats don’t seem to be fazing investors, who have pushed the stock market to record highs.
    Ben Casselman, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The hottest of hot stocks August has been a bust, but overall the stock market has soared higher this year.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In stock markets abroad, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped 3% in its latest sharp swing.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The blazing hot stock market seems to set new records just about every day.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 May 2024
  • The stock market will open at its usual time, 9:30 a.m. ET, on Wednesday.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
  • Home prices shot higher, and the stock market rose in the biggest surge on records dating back more than 30 years.
    Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Maybe the respondents didn’t have money in the stock market.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Some states across the country declared the day a public holiday, and schools and the stock market closed.
    TIME, 24 Jan. 2024
  • There is plenty of garbage floating in the stock market today.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Musk dropped from the top spot on the wealth list after the stock market’s backlash to his handling of Twitter.
    Michael Liedtke, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
  • This is the stock market; plenty of people just want to make money.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 14 June 2024
  • Bear markets—defined as a 20% drop in the stock market—take place about once every four years.
    Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 11 Oct. 2023
  • As the results came into view, the country’s stock markets plunged.
    Pragati K.b. Atul Loke, New York Times, 4 June 2024
  • Beijing has cut interest rates and ramped up support for property and stock markets since late September.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024

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