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  • present tense form of stock (3rd person singular).
  • plural of stock.
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stocks

NOUN
holdings
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Since 2020, as before 2000, investors have been much more concerned about inflation, and stocks have tended to fall when bond yields rise, and vice versa.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

For the first two decades of the millennium, stocks and bond yields typically rose and fell together.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

“That’s why the upside in stocks eventually hinges upon stocks’ ability to deliver on increasingly rosy earnings expectations — not just for the next quarter or two, but for the quarters to come.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Instead, they are buying their stocks — suggesting they think the stocks go higher from here, not lower.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

He might be early, of course, and stocks might fall some before they rose, but that didn’t matter to him: The value was now there, and the bet would work out in the long run.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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