1.2 Beginning of the Stock Market
There are many speculations on where and when the trading of stocks actually
began. Some say it was in early Greece, and Rome. People would lend money to a
business and expect a return with interest. Many historians say that the beginnings of the
stock market as we know it now was the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). I have
found a few scholars that have evidence that the act of trading stocksactually happened
well before the NYSE.