If you work for a publicly traded company (stock market), are you still considered to be working in the "private sector"?

For example, companies like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are publicly traded companies in the Stock Market. So if you are working in these companies, are you still considered to be working in the "private sector"? 

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