Faber has essentially given up on the world; he cares so much about it that it makes him physically ill to realize that this society is inevitably headed for self-destruction. Montag agrees that an apocalypse is coming, but thinks that there must be people prepared to salvage what's left of human civilization in the aftermath. When Faber refuses to help him do this, protesting that there's no point to it, Montag begins tearing pages out of a Bible, presumably because he thinks it will spur Faber to act.
The last refuge for the dangerous intellectual is the stock market, which is how Faber got the money to finance his life and creations, such as the two-way radio. This seems to be a bit of a throwaway comment, or a remark on Faber's eccentricity, and not really a deep insight that the novel means to present as part of its message. I think this question was asked mostly to see if an assigned reading had been completed.
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