| If you are like some people you might keep a | | | | split up so that each item is bought or sold |
| close eye on our stock market. If you are | | | | at different times of the day. Each of these |
| like most of the people in this country, you | | | | stocks are than counted and figured out so |
| really don't. Most people that really keep a | | | | that by the end of the day, these companies |
| close eye on these stocks are people that own | | | | will know if their stocks are going to keep |
| companies that sell items to the public. They | | | | their company running or if they might be in |
| are your carmakers, frozen orange juice | | | | trouble. If their stock prices were to drop |
| companies, and oil companies just to name a | | | | several points than they had better find some |
| few. People like me just know that it is | | | | way to fix the problem. |
| there. | | | | |
| | | | Right now the biggest company that is having |
| The stock market is a place where they buy | | | | trouble with their stocks is the automakers. |
| and sell items for this country and sell to | | | | Their stocks just keep falling, so this is |
| other countries. Every day many of these | | | | why they are trying to get you to buy their |
| items are sold over the wires, and this is | | | | cars. The more cars and trucks that they can |
| how they come up with the stock prices. They | | | | sell to us or other countries, the more it |
| have many workers in this company. There are | | | | will help their stocks come back up. This is |
| the buyers, sellers, and the runners. The | | | | the same way with anything that has to do |
| runners are the busiest of all of these | | | | with the buying or selling of anything that |
| people because they are always running from | | | | we buy. |
| one section of this large place to the other, | | | | |
| getting all the information from one person | | | | Here are some more things that are in our |
| to the other. They will go from one investor | | | | stock market: lumber, gold, and silver. When |
| to the other, and then bring this information | | | | you go to buy or sell them you might want to |
| back to the floor where they would be either | | | | go to the stock exchange to find out what the |
| buying or selling something. | | | | going price is. This is the best place to go |
| | | | because this would be the easiest way to |
| Each item is running all day, but they are | | | | figure out how much you would be able to get. |