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Stock market operations

Stock market operations

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Stock market operations

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- [Instructor] In order to invest effectively, it's important for you to understand basic stock market operations including the hours the stock market is open, pre and post-market trading, and who the participants are on the exchanges. Now, I'm here at cnbc.com. CNBC is a news service that follows stocks all day long. All CNBC does is track what's going on in the stock market and report about it. And we are looking at a screenshot for the S&P 500. The S&P 500 is one of the major indexes that represents the stock market. It's essentially the largest 500 companies in the US stock market. So it's a good barometer for what's going on overall in the market. Now, there's a few things to note. First of all, we could look at this chart on a one-day basis, and what this shows us is the hours of operation for the stock market. The stock market opens at 9:30 AM every weekday, Monday through Friday, in the US. Stock trading continues throughout the day, up until 4 PM when the stock market closes.…

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