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September 26, 2016

How the shrinking stock market affects you

  • The number of publicly traded U.S. stocks is down by roughly half since the late 1990s, and that limits the choices available to investors — and the mutual-fund managers they hire.
    • By STAN CHOE
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — More companies don't want you, or any other investor, to buy their stock.

    Instead of listing their shares on a stock exchange, businesses are going private or never going public in the first place. Security company ADT, for example, pulled its shares off the market this spring after going private in a nearly $7 billion buyout. Uber, meanwhile, makes it simple for customers to hail a car, but investors can't easily buy a piece of the privately held company, which is valued at more than $60 billion.


     
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