How does the stock market work? | Oliver Elfenbaum | TED-Ed Animation

Improve your broad, overall knowledge of stocks, finance investment and trading with the TED Talk “How does the stock market work?” In this animation video, educator Oliver Elfenbaum begins by reviewing the history of the stock market and explains how it was inadvertently created in the 1600s by the Dutch East India Company. From there, Elfenbaum offers a hypothetical company scenario to explain the process of investing in stocks, and also goes over marketplace dynamics as well as what happens when a company loses stock value.