7 sentences with “stock”

The Dutch invented both formalised currency exchange and the stock market, leading to enormous fortunes for the merchants there.

In the early 17th century, wealthy English merchants and the landed elite began to pool their resources to form joint stock companies.

This defect was not a precursor to his illness; Stephen Hawking was simply that kind of boy: the laughing stock of the class, respected by his friends but shunned by most.

During the winter my father would stock up on paint, shingles, nails, lumber, pipes, cement, cleaning supplies, fishing tackle and furniture to take back to his childhood cabin.

However, when the stock market crashed in 1929, US banks demanded repayment of European loans, both to Germany and to their former enemies. The capital to repay those loans simply did not exist.

The Great Depression began in the United States with a massive stock market crash on 24 October 1929. The ill-conceived debt cycle described above had worked well enough for most of the 1920s, while the US economy was stable and US banks were willing to underwrite new loans.

"If you work in New York financial circles," says biopsychologist Dinges, "remember that even if the local stock market closes at night, you should watch what's going on in Tokyo and London. Otherwise you will have difficulties that morning. And, of course, the financial circles in Tokyo, London and Paris need to watch the New York market in turn.