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    What Is The Stock Market?
    What Is The Stock Market?
    What Is The Stock Market?
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    What Is The Stock Market?

    By Mario V. Farina

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    The Stock Market is a place where an investor can purchase and/or sell stock. It is easy to use your computer to buy and sell. This book tell what the stock market is and how it works. There is much more that that this book does not get into at this time but it is something you need to know if you are planning to begin an investment plan with stocks.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMario V. Farina
    Release dateJun 9, 2016
    ISBN9781310820342
    What Is The Stock Market?
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    Mario V. Farina

    Mario V Farina has worked all his life, from age 18 to 90. He worked for the American Locomotive Company, served in the U. S. Army during WWII, was employed at General Electric. He taught computers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After leaving his position with RPI, he became employed with the State Labor Department of New York. He’s a car buff, a pun creator, and a computer enthusiast. He wrote textbooks for the programming languages COBOL and FORTRAN and wrote a book of puns and short stories called, “A Little Light Reading,” as well as over 20 other books. Several of his books were translated into other languages. This is his first foray into the world of digital publishing, with the help of his computer tutor (william.rl.dickie@gmail.com).

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