Questão 68

    “The idea that the Swedish economy is headed for
a crash is nonsense,” Blomkvist said.
    “You have to distinguish between two things – the
Swedish economy and the Swedish stock market. The
[5] Swedish economy is the $\sum$ of all the goods and
services that are produced $\in$ this country every day.
There are telephones from Eric, cars from Volvo,
chickens from Scan, and shipments from Kiruna to
Svövke. That’s the Swedish economy, and it’s just as
[10] strong or weak today as it was a week ago.”
    He paused for effect and took a sip of water.
    “The Stock Exchange is something very different.
There is no economy and no production of goods and
services. There are only fantasies $\in$ which people from
[15] one hour to the next decide that this or that company
is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn’t have
a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.”
    “So you’re saying that it doesn’t matter if the Stock
Exchange drops like a rock?”

LARSSON, S. (2009) The girl with the dragon tattoo. Vintage, pp.626-627.

The dictionary definition for the term “stock” (line 04) that best fits its use $\in$ the text is