Stock Market

"The size of the world stock market was estimated at about $36.6 trillion at the beginning of October 2008.^[1] The total world derivatives market has been estimated at about $791 trillion face or nominal value,^[2] 11 times the size of the entire world economy.^[3] The value of the derivatives market, because it is stated in terms of notional values, cannot be directly compared to a stock or a fixed income security, which traditionally refers to an actual value. Moreover, the vast majority of derivatives 'cancel' each other out (i.e., a derivative 'bet' on an event occurring is offset by a comparable derivative 'bet' on the event not occurring). Many such relatively illiquid securities are valued as marked to model, rather than an actual market price." Wikipedia

Thursday’s Close:

• Dow+66.19
  
  
  14,963.74
  +0.44%
• Nasdaq+38.92
  
  
  3,638.71
  +1.08%
• S&P+14.16
  
  
  1,656.96
  +0.86%
  
  

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