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How the stock market works
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About this study
“How the stock market works” is a free, 4-lesson study at novice, created with soclever, a personal AI teacher. Each lesson takes a few minutes and ends with a check-in question; finish the curriculum and you can take a certificate test to earn a diploma. Starting is free once you sign in — or generate your own study on any topic.
What you'll learn
- What Is a Stock?. When Dutch traders needed to fund long ocean voyages in the 1600s, they faced a problem: one ship was ruinously expensive, and the risk of losing it at sea was enormous. So they…
Questions this study answers
- If you buy one share of a company that has issued 1,000 shares total, what fraction of that company do you own?
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