Le marché boursier
Example: Le marché boursier a connu une forte hausse cette semaine.
Definition
"Le marché boursier" refers to the stock market where shares of publicly traded companies are bought and sold. It represents the organized system or place for trading stocks, reflecting economic activity and investor sentiment, as in the example: 'Le marché boursier a connu une forte hausse cette semaine.'
Etymology
The term "le marché boursier" combines 'marché,' meaning market, from the Latin 'mercatus,' and 'boursier,' relating to stocks or shares, derived from 'bourse,' a French word for stock exchange originally named after the 13th-century Bruges merchant family Van der Buerse, whose coat of arms featured three purses.
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"Le marché boursier" appears in the Vocaplus list "French - Finance - (A1-C2) - set 1", containing 150 commonly used words.
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