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stock

[stok] / stɒk /






NOUN
investment in company
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As the largest stock market-listed ice cream company in the world, with a market capitalisation of around £8bn, it has the funds to innovate.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Micron stock is on a roll as investors head back into the memory-chip trade.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Meanwhile, if you really feel a need to have some real-estate exposure in your portfolio, you can always buy stock in residential real-estate investment trusts, or REITs, which own properties.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

It is now one of the company’s top five stock investments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

When IBM stock was trading at $34 a share and had been hopping around madly for the past year, an option to buy it for $35 a share anytime soon was seldom underpriced.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Trades in China were losers for a number of quants, and firms suffered as AI-related stocks tumbled then snapped back.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Defense stocks are climbing on Friday after the White House slapped new tariffs on foreign-made drones and components.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Stocks were slipping, but the S&P 500 was still on track to end the week near records after a boost from slowing inflation and some AI-related stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Such a dynamic has led stocks and rates to move in opposite directions in the past, and it’s come back into play at times again this year.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

They already were short the stocks of mortgage originators and the home builders.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Gruel recalls growing up in what he calls the “microwave generation,” in a house stocked with cereal, pasta, refined carbohydrates and premade salad dressings.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

Once the cleanup was completed, the district reopened the lake in April and stocked it with 2,000 pounds of trout and 500 pounds of lightning trout.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

He’s tried livelier cruise lines, and nothing compares to a library stocked with first-edition books and the certainty that no children will be running down the halls.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Bigelow Apothecaries in New York, doesn’t sell peptides in his store, which is stocked with a mix of vitamins, high-end beauty supplies and medications — all products he believes to be safe.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Racks of weights, stability balls, and resistance bands are stocked along the edges of the room.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

That short supply means retailers may soon start stocking "sun-tanned" cauliflower because "their biggest nightmare is empty shelves", she said.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

You may miss stocking up in well-lit superstores but enjoy getting to know shopkeepers who run tiny bodegas.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

If you’re like me and still love stocking up on paper coupons, use them!

From Salon Jun. 21, 2026

The soda company installed coolers in a handful of Texas locations, stocking them with Coke’s non-soda brands such as Powerade, carbonated coffees and energy drinks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

He couldn’t think of stocking the canoe or anything else; his mind was swirling like the flood.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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