Saturday, 21 November 2020

Superb Elite Simple Etymology

stock market (n.) "place where securities are bought and sold," 1809, from stock (n.2) + market. The original Stock Market (mid-14c.) was a fish and meat market in the City of London on or near the later site of Mansion House, so called perhaps because it occupied the site of a former stocks. Stock exchange is attested from 1773.
Source https://www.etymonline.com/word/stock%20market

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