I read that only 10% of Wall St. Stocks is owned by private individuals Does that mean 1% of America owns 90%

Question

If so it would parallel the mortgage and personal wealth numbers.

Answer 1

Actually it is around 2.4 percent of indivduals in US own some 90+% of nations wealth that does not mean they actually own some 2.4% of the stock markets shares.
The amount of trading by private individuals, if seperated from those of officers within the corportions they recieve stock options from is way under 2% done or held by private individuals.
One has to remember that some of the wealthiest people in US are owners of the NY stock exchanges and commodity houses.
That most shares in US based corporations are not held by US citizens but are held in actuality by foreign entitys is little understood.
Fro example the largest US energy firm Exxon etc is less than 1.6% private held as the majority is owned by overseas owners, and federal state and such entitys as 401 K and Keough funding managed by brokerage firms.
Every state and even federal is dependent upon value of shares owned within their retirment funds and not one state has full equity in those funds and shows lack of funding if they had to actually pay out today.
The traders one sees on TV of sits at home actually contribute very little to stock markets valuation.
As an example Insurance Corporations own the largest single entity controlled amounts of stocks within US and even they are invested heavily in mutual funds or differing small cap and growth funding in overseas entitys.
Americans do not own American assets as the largest 500 corps could support every action of Federal and state needs.
People recieve paychecks from foreign owned Corps manufacturing and dealing in US landscape but in truth for every dollar they add to US economy almost 1.5 dollars goes overseas and not to pay off mini holders in US sock market listings.
The most secret attempt by US mutual funds and those who hold retirment fundign is a move to get Canada to let US firms become part of Canadian retiremnt funds.
Why?
Because Canada backs every retiremtn fund with a guarantee, a guarantee the funds anot get from US governemtn.
An exampole is the latest bailout of retirement funds by Congress that lets them pay nly 50 cnets on the dollar they promiced workers in the past.

Answer 2

Slightly less then that . Yet Insurance premiums ,retirement ,and other businesses all invest in the market making everyone so to speak involved .
The billions in profit and the dividends paid to share holders from even the defense industry is all part of our investment in the future . People have to be managed like it or not and this serves the interests of all people . So weather you like whats going on or not get with the program and take a slice out of life . It is there for the taking .

Answer 3

No. The other 90% is owned by mutual funds and other financial institutes, which are owned by individuals or individual account holders.
A vast majority of stock is owned in street-name, which saves stockholders the hassle of transferring shares at the time of sale. Very few people who buy stock buy book shares or certificate shares.

Answer 4

No that is crazy. there are too many 401 Ks out there. they must be adding those into company holdings. Because companies can hold stock too. most of the wealthier people own stocks across the world and not just the USA. so their financial influence is not as strong as everybody thinks.

Answer 5

It's sad but true... If you were a millionaire though, would you not invest? It's the smart idea.

And look at it in this perspective. If they are purchasing 90% of the stocks... Doesn't that mean they are investing billions into small business?

Answer 6

So we know that when our media tells us our economy is strong based on our market, it really means the rich are getting richer and the poor get poorer!

Answer 7

Yes, you are right.