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Investor's Business Daily (IBD) is an American financial research and media company covering international business, finance, economics and the stock market.

Founded in 1984 by William O'Neil as a print news publication, it is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

IBD provides information about stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, commodities, and other financial instruments aimed at individual investors and financial professionals.

A stock market, equity market or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.

Examples of the latter include shares of private companies which are sold to investors through equity crowdfunding platforms.

Stock exchanges list shares of common equity as well as other security types, e.g. corporate bonds and convertible bonds.

Research and development (R&D or R+D), also known in Europe as research and technical (or technological) development (RTD), is a general term for activities in connection with corporate or governmental innovation.

Research and development is situated at the front end of the innovation life cycle, which may end with commercialization.

A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process.

Tool use by humans dates back millions of years, and other animals are also known to employ simple tools.

A market analysis studies the attractiveness and the dynamics of a special market within a special industry.

It is part of the industry analysis and thus in turn of the global environmental analysis.

Through all of these analyses, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of a company can be identified.

Finally, with the help of a SWOT analysis, adequate business strategies of a company will be defined.

The market analysis is also known as a documented investigation of a market that is used to inform a firm's planning activities, particularly around decisions of inventory, purchase, work force expansion/contraction, facility expansion, purchases of capital equipment, promotional activities, and many other aspects of a company.