On a digital, computational level, what actually changes stock/currency prices?

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I understand that of course currency and stock prices can change as a result of a multitude of factors, financial ones and socioeconomic ones.

But some computer program must change the numbers we see on the screen when we look up a stock price? They’re constantly changing so surely there are programs written to make those changes? But who is running those programs? How do they access news reports when there’s bad news and make the prices go down?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Unless that trade happens off market in a dark pool and then the trade processes without impacting the stock price.

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