The US Stock Market. Friday Jan 24th 2014 Close. The week of Friday January 24th 2014 was a bad week for the US stock market. As market close Friday January 24th 2014‚ the Dow Jones industrial average was at its lowest falling by 1.96% making it the worst week since November 2011 moreover the S&P 500 and NASDAQ also fell by about 2%1 Hibah Yousuf‚ CNNMoney. The drop in stock prices was a result of slow economic recovery in the United States‚ EU region‚ and slowdown in China as well as emerging
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International Review of Business Research Papers Vol. 5 No. 1 January 2009‚ Pp. 389- 404 Calendar Effects in Pakistani Stock Market Shahid Ali* And Muhammad Akbar** The paper investigates calendar anomalies in the Pakistani stock market by taking a data of stock returns of fifteen years from November 1991 to October 2006. The existence of calendar anomalies could endanger the assumption of Efficient Market Hypothesis. Using one Factor ANOVA the main hypotheses about equality in returns on daily
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Money and Capital Markets Current Trends in Indian Stock Markets (April - June 2013) Introduction The Indian Equity market is divided in to two parts Primary market - where the share is first issued in the form of IPO (Initial Public Offering). After issuing the shares it is listed on one or more exchanges and the share is traded i.e. bought and sold - this is secondary market. When securities are offered exclusively to the existing shareholders of company‚ as opposed to the general
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Starting from a low technological base after political independence in 1960‚ the country embarked on the arduous task of building a state with one identity by integrating the different ethnicities and transforming the barter economy into financial exchange economy. The country provided infrastructure and social amenities for a very young population. Over the years‚ policies were pursued in order to achieve the goal of a balanced national development that reflects the “Federal Character” of Nigeria
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Golden Finger or Fat Finger ----Evaluation of the reliability in stock trading system SYSEN5300 Project Proposal Sep 25‚ 2013 Yicheng Huang Yuhong Ding Anuj Gautam Introduction and Statement of the project The stock trading system is always connoted as ‘Golden Finger’ for its amazing speed and striking efficiency to achieve the money snowballing in the stock market. High returns come with high risks. The reliability of the whole trading system is the key point deciding whether the
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Chapter 001 The Goals and Functions of Financial Management True / False Questions 1. As finance emerged as a new field‚ much emphasis was placed on mergers and acquisitions. TRUE Bloom ’s: Knowledge Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 1 2. Inflation is assumed to be a temporary problem that does not affect financial decisions. FALSE Bloom ’s: Understanding Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 1 3. Financial Capital is composed of long-term plant and equipment‚ as well as
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several stock exchanges and broker/dealer networks that have come into the computer age of finances. The street ’s location put it in the perfect position to become the base for the import and exports of the new colony. Despite the fact that New York City was the temporary capital of the United States from 1785 to 1790‚ the first real stock exchange begun in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania in 1790. This was a simple finical market in which traders needed to have their offices close to the stock exchange
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Securities And Exchange Commission – SEC (Bangladesh) The definition of SEC can be said simply as an independent national agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors. In addition to regulation and protection‚ it also monitors the corporate takeovers in the country. SEC is designed to promote full public disclosure and to protect the investing public against fraudulent and manipulative practices in the securities markets. The capital market of Bangladesh is regulated by
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Stock market: Barometer of indian economy Many assume that the stock market represents the state of the economy. That is the primary reason for this distorted obsession about the market. There are several factually incorrect assumptions about the role of the market‚ says R. Vaidyanathan. | IT is that time of the year when many suggestions are offered to the Finance Minister to modify the Budget to boost the stock market and‚ through that‚ the economy. This year the market is already in an upswing
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Impact of Index futures derivatives on the stock market volatility (1998-2005) Abstract Derivative products like futures and options in Indian stock market have become important instruments of price discovery‚ portfolio diversification and risk hedging in recent times. This research study is an effort to study the impact of introduction of index futures on the stock market volatility. In order to capture the impact of introduction of index on the volatility of the underlying‚ a dummy variable
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