{"id":125376,"date":"2023-12-18T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T13:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125376"},"modified":"2023-12-18T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T22:17:05","slug":"wsj-more-americans-than-ever-own-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125376","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) More Americans Than Ever Own Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he share of Americans who own stocks has never been so high.<\/p>\n<p>About 58% of U.S. households owned stocks in 2022, according to the Federal Reserve\u2019s survey of consumer finances released this fall. That is up from 53% in 2019 and marks the highest household stock-ownership rate recorded in the triennial survey. The cohort includes families holding individual shares directly and those owning stocks indirectly through funds, retirement accounts or other managed accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The data provide the most comprehensive snapshot yet of how the Covid-era explosion in investing has reshaped Americans\u2019 personal finances. Stuck at home during the pandemic with extra cash, millions jumped into the stock market for the first time. The elimination of commission fees on stock trading across U.S. brokerages made investing cheaper than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt created a whole generation of investors,\u201d said Anthony Denier, chief executive of mobile brokerage Webull U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/stocks\/stocks-americans-own-most-ever-9f6fd963\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The percentage of Americans who own stocks has never been higher. The pandemic and zero-commission trading created a whole generation of investors <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dbbcwsD9zg\">https:\/\/t.co\/dbbcwsD9zg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WSJ Markets (@WSJmarkets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJmarkets\/status\/1736695718914465962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he share of Americans who own stocks has never been so high. About 58% of U.S. households owned stocks in 2022, according to the Federal Reserve\u2019s survey of consumer finances released this fall. That is up from 53% in 2019<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125376\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,209,589,149,593,599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-americau-s-a","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-personal-finance","category-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125380,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125376\/revisions\/125380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}