a bubble
Prices can be accompanies by either inflation, an increase in real wages, or a decrease in consumption.
Because people put too much stock into an abstract idea when real value is opinion...
Real Gross Domestic Product measures the value of all the goods and services produced expressed in the prices of some base year
The current GDP is the value of all products and services produced in a country. The real GDP is the value of all the goods and services produced and are expressed in current prices in a country.
See the explanation of American depository Receipt at: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_ADR_stands_for The actual price of the ADR means nothing in itself, just like the price of a stock doesn't. The number of shares, among other things, makes the stock price higher or lower without changing any real value. (A stock with a float of say 100 shares and a price of $100 as share, would be the same if the float was 1,000 shares but the price would then be indicated as $10 a share).
stock prices being higher than their real value :)
a crash-there's a major decrease in stock prices a bubble-stock prices are higher than their real value bull market-there's a general upward trend in stock prices
One can find real time stock prices at NASDAQ and Real Time Markets. Yahoo also offers real time stock prices through the finance section of their site.
There are many websites that display current stock prices such as, NASDAQ, yahoo finance, and msn money. Apple also has a widget the reports stock prices.
The best site for real time stock market prices is at daytrader dot com. That site has all the up to date rates and indexes that are used throughout the days for prices.
Stock market feeds help people by allowing them to check the price of stocks on a real time basis and determine whether stocks they hold are rising or falling in value and what the bid and asking prices are for a particular stock at that moment in time.
If the stock market has shown one thing about itself over the past decade, it's that it is horrifyingly unstable. The rates at which stocks go up and down are almost comical at times, and it really doesn't speak well of the system as a whole that it is so unreliable. One of the major issues with the stock market is the way in which gold stock prices are portrayed in the market on a daily basis. The rampant fluctuation of gold stock prices gives way to a concept that gold itself fluctuates in value in much the same way, when this is really not true. In fact, the value of gold remains fairly steady in spite of gold stock prices.Recently, gold stock prices have been labeled as "obscene" by some industry monitors, and that has not gone by without issue. Now that gold stock prices have reached a slightly lower range, there is renewed interest in these stocks. However, one thing that many people don't seem to realize is that not much has happened to the "real" value of gold during this entire period of unrest in the area of gold stock prices. In fact, there has been a fairly steady value attributed to gold throughout this era of high gold stock prices.
There are a number of places to get accurate information about stock prices. For real time information, a brokerage or finance site would be the best bet. A newspaper can give the closing stock price of the day.
The "stock market" refers to the sum of all the shares of stock that are publicly owned. The "value" of a share of stock is simply an estimate of what someone would pay you for that share if you chose to sell it. If you own a share and continue to own that share, what you own is the stock. In that case, you don't own money - any amount of money - you just own the stock. So when "the stock market" "loses value" no real money is lost - except from stock owners who choose to sell at low prices. The value lost is the amount of money that WOULD be lost by the current stock owners if all the shares were sold.
Prices can be accompanies by either inflation, an increase in real wages, or a decrease in consumption.
Someone can find the current prices of gold and silver by looking at real charts on a finance or stock news website. Such websites provide real time updates on precious metal, oil and stock indices.
stock prices would decline and investors would lose money