Many Americans learned this the hard way by investing all their money in stock shares, which then lost value.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

Some said it was a plot by members of the stock market to ruin farmers and seize their land.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

But now most stock cars are individually designed and built, although they still look like cars you see on the road.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

The value of stock for the Montgomery Ward store dropped from eighty-three dollars to fifty in a single day.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

The stockholders of seventy-seven oil companies gave control of their stock to nine trustees of Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

It also bars additional forms of pay except for stock that can only be received after government loans have been repaid.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

In a trust,stock owners of many competing companies give control of their stock to a committee,or group,of trustees.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Stock exchanges have agreed to temporarily halt trading of any stock that rises or falls ten percent or more within five minutes.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

The carmaker plans to do this by offering company stock in exchange for twenty-seven billion dollars in G.M.bonds.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

When he sees a stock rise in price, he uses the computer to buy shares of the stock.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The bigger reserves could be in the form of cash or common stock, also known as common equity.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

Blaine had written the letters several years earlier during a shameful incident concerning the sale of railroad stock.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

As it happens, the plan was announced on May sixth -- the same day as the "flash crash" on American stock markets.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

If the price of shares of a stock hits bottom that might be the time to buy it.

VOA: special.2009.09.20