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This tag is to be used for questions about stocks. If possible, this tag should be accompanied by a relevant country or stock exchange tag. Questions about specific stocks are discouraged but an example can be used to illustrate a point. Stock is also known as common stock or common equity; do not use this tag for preferred stock.
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What price can *I* buy IPO shares for?
This is motivated by the recent LinkedIn IPO, but is a general question.
LinkedIn IPOed around $45/share, climbed to $95/share by noon, topped out around $122 on the day, then closed around $94/share …
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Why is short-selling considered more "advanced" than a simple buy?
But from what I can tell on my brokerage account, they only allow shorting individual stocks (there isn't a bearish mutual fund that I can find, for example), and many columnists treat short selling as …
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Why would a company care about the price of its own shares in the stock market?
Stock price is an indicator about the health of the company. Increased profits (for example) will drive the stock price up; excessive debt (for example) will drive it down.
The stock price has a pro …
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