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All about stocks and the stock market: the bulls, bears and the bottom line

Felicia Tan and Thiveyen Kathirrasan
Felicia Tan and Thiveyen Kathirrasan • 12 min read
All about stocks and the stock market: the bulls, bears and the bottom line
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Stocks provide a way of funding the economic output of a company that also enable investors to bet on its growth and promise

Once upon a time, the stock market was a forbidding place, reserved only for those in the know — that is, those in the upper echelons of society with plenty of money they can put to work to make even more money.

At that time, those in the financial industry had a wider advantage over retail investors as they had easier access to market-moving information, reports or analysis.

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