Section outline

  • Learning Intentions

    • To experience market trading and to introduce market types, prices, S&D, wealth, . . . 'Economics'
    • To explore the pros & cons / effects of specific markets (eg shares) on individuals, companies & countries.
    • To learn to use a Question Quadrant to generate inquiry questions that we might want to answer.

    Success Criteria
    • Can explain the nature of markets and of one specific market, eg shares, and understand media reports. 
    • Can discuss the moral and economic issues in trading in shares, houses, commodities, etc. 

    Trading shares on the NZ Share Market

    To introduce Economics and Markets (and to have some fun after the NCEA Assessment), some of you might like to experience analysing the capital markets, international events, and business / industry changes. You can trade shares (not for real) using the NZ Stock Exchange (NZX) virtual trading site at: https://virtualtrading.nzx.com/accounts/register/ .

    Graphs showing historic changes in share prices are available here: analysis https://tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/stock-market