The gap between the two is the reward demanded for holding riskier stocks.

两者之间的差额就是持有更高风险股票所要求的回报。

Do I want to be holding stocks like this?

我想持有这样的股票吗？

Hence, after a certain point is reached, there is necessarily a loss in holding a greater stock.

因此，在达到某个点后，持有更大的股票必然会造成损失。

Falling prices cut this growth. But in China this “wealth effect” is limited by the small proportion of the population that holds stocks.

而股价的下跌则令这种发展中断，但在中国，这种“财富效应”仍受到持股人群的小比例所限。

Indian households hold 22,500 tonnes of the physical metal-five times the stock in America's bullion depository at Fort Knox and worth $1.4trn at current prices.

印度民众持有22500吨实物黄金，是美国诺克斯堡黄金库存的5倍，按当前价格计算价值1.4万亿美元。

The overall goal is the same for all index funds: to hold stocks for the long term and ignore short-term market fluctuations.

所有指数基金的总体目标都是一样的：长期持有股票，忽略短期市场波动。

You know, the odds are you're not going to pick them, but you can still benefit from that if you hold enough stocks.

你知道，你很可能不会选择它们，但如果你持有足够的股票， 你仍然可以从中受益。

The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.

霍尔丹指出，近十年内，无论美国还是英国，平均持股时间已经从七年降到了七个月。