To assist in understanding the stock markets and how we may utilize our household resources to invest in a publicly traded business by bridging the gap by using financial capital markets. On August 1, 2021, I chose the following companies in Table 1 from the current stocks from the Yahoo Finance website (https://finance.yahoo.com/most-active):

Table 1 Yahoo Stock Screener Stock Name of the Company Price Change % Change Volume Symbol (intraday) AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 106.19 +3.24 +3.14% 124.127M AAPL Apple Inc. 145.86 +0.22 +0.15% 64.472M MSFT Microsoft Corporation 284.91 -1.59 -0.55% 20.945M M Macy's, Inc. 17.00 +0.37 +2.22% 16.118M Retrieved from Yahoo! https://finance.yahoo.com/most-active