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