Information about stock market trading
MarketWatch provides the latest stock market, financial and business news. Get stock market quotes, personal finance advice, company news and more. The first trading day of 2016 had not shortage of headlines, from a plummeting Chinese stock market to GM's investment in Uber rival Lyft and the severing of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Two of the basic concepts of stock market trading are “bull” and “bear” markets. The term bull market is used to refer to a stock market in which the price of stocks is generally rising. This is the type of market most investors prosper in, as the majority of stock investors are buyers, rather than short-sellers, of stocks.