The differences between The US Stock Market And NASDAQ
So many people get confused on this NASDAQ thing, and do not understand what the difference is between the two I thought I would break it down for you. It is really easy, so do not worry. You see the New York Stock Exchange is an actual physical exchange. With a real building, traders and stocks being trading every work week there. If you have seen the floor of the exchange after a days trading it like a ticker tape parade has just gone through there. Now NASDAQ, which is short for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, is what is called a virtual exchange, it is all done on computers in cyber space. There is no actual physical exchange building for NASDAQ. It is the second largest exchange right behind the New York Stock Exchange.
A lot of people do not know this, but there are stock markets all over the world, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, and Hong Kong to name a few. Each exchange is extremely sensitive to the other as to how the days trading goes, and they are also effected by what is the current situation in their respective countries. Everything in the world effects trading. Political elections, unemployment rates, wars, holidays, the list is virtually endless. When that big earthquake and tidal wave hit Japan last year, it affected stocks trading and selling on the Tokyo market because confidence was down in there ability to product clean safe nuclear energy. The reason? The tidal wave hit one of their nuclear plants, and the station was no longer able to keep the nuclear rods cool. Thus they had a small meltdown, and a radioactive cloud spread all over the country, and most of Pacific.
