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Stock Market. Loading the player... What is the 'Stock Market'. The stock market refers to the collection of markets and exchanges where the issuing and trading of equities (stocks of publicly held companies), bonds and other sorts of securities takes place, either through formal exchanges or over-the-counter markets.
Updated October 28, 2016. The next stock market crash can easily kick-start a recession. That's because stocks are shares of ownership in a company. As a result, the stock market reflects investors' confidence in the future earnings of all these companies. Corporate earnings are dependent on the health of the U.S. economy.