What is the stock market?
The stock market works by having licensed stock brokers trade shares on a stock exchange for buyers and sellers.
What is the average rate of return of the stock market?
Risks and returns are often correlated, which means that if you want the possibility of a higher rate of return, you might need to accept a greater risk of loss in your investments with no guarantee of return.
Investing during a crisis: how markets have recovered in the past
History has shown that while in the short term it is easy to panic, over the long term the benefit from regular investing could be strong