commodities more parallels the commodity exchange.
a stock market would assume that the shops were corporations with common stock that could be bought and sold, rather than the sole proprietorships they are set up as. Tembegs, Milgryms, even the individual trader "shops" are more based on sole proprietorship as a business model.
Within the game, those stores never go bankrupt, or have investors, etc- except for fur exchanges and gemshops <although only one investor <trader> can invest in a fur exchange/gemshop at a time, and only certain ones>. Although there is the issue of shrinkage <theft> in various stores, there's no way you can really lose or gain coin with how they are set up with an endless inventory, etc.
You've seen life through distorted eyes;You know you had to learn;The execution of your mind;You really had to turn;,the book is read,The end begins to show,The truth is out, the lies are old, But you don't want to know - Black Sabbath
