common stock funds

基本解释

Selling common or preferred stock to investors in order to raise funds.
優先股股票使其持有者比普通股股東享有某些優先權利。
Raising funds by offering ownership in a corporation through the issuing of shares of a corporation's common or preferred stock.
公司通過發行普通股或優先股使投資者獲得股權來籌集資金。
The second method of raising funds is by issuing equities, such as common stock, which are claims to share in the net income (income after expenses and taxes) and the assets of a business.
籌集資金的第二種方法是通過發行股票，比如普通股（分享純收入和一個企業的資産）。

Yet, as we see, the retail investor (you and I) are buying, buying, buying bonds and bond funds and selling, selling, selling equities and common stock funds.
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