What’s the Fascination with Stock Markets?

There are publicly-traded companies engaged directly in the construction industry, and others with close ties to the construction sector, that have obvious reasons to be interested in how stock markets are performing. As just one example, executives of such firms may have compensation packages that rise commensurate with increases in their companies’ share prices.

There are numerous other, but not quite so obvious, reasons that stock market trajectories are watched closely by analysts studying the economy and construction industries.
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