How to Use stock market in a Sentence

stock market

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nvidia is now one of the largest companies on the US stock market, valued at $2.21 trillion.
    — Olesya Dmitracova, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Wall Street is feeling sunny about the stock market as the calendar flips to 2024.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The stock market is one of the best ways to build wealth over the long term, and young people are best positioned to take advantage of that.
    — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • After gaining in the first half, global stock markets have dipped in recent weeks and remain on edge.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Wong also added that the broader U.S. stock market in general did well during the period of the study.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024

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