GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS: A CASE STUDY OF THE NIGERIAN STOCK MARKET RESEARCH BRIEF The history of stock trading and trading associations can be traced as far back as the 11th century when Jewish and Muslim merchants set up trade associations. After centuries of evolution‚ stock markets have become the symbol of commerce in the modern world. It operates in various countries and trades a range of securities. The world stock market capitalisation is estimated to be about $ 36.6 Trillion. The stock market
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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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Vietnam’s stock market’s recovery puts it among the world leaders for 2009 In 2008‚ the world economy saw a large recession on the worldwide scale due to the negative influences on the global financial and economic crisis. In the first few months of 2008‚ world economies faced sky high price increases‚ which led to the chain of bankruptcy of financial institutions‚ frozen credit market. Many investors sold off their stock portfolios and looked for less risky assets. MSCI index‚ the index of emerging
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Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical Industries (BAPI)‚ the stalwart association of pharmaceutical manufacturers of the country was instituted in 1972‚ Since then BAPI playing a pivotal role in shaping up the industry. Association’s member include large‚ medium‚ small‚ national and foreign companies who together are responsible for manufacturing 96% of the country’s pharmaceutical production. This indeed proves the success of BAPI as a responsible and acceptable body. Prospect of medicine
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Regulating the Philippine stock market: the Securities Regulation Code and the information efficiency of Philippine stock prices Noel B. Del Castillo* Miriam College‚ nbdelcastillo@gmail.com ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC) on the information efficiency of the Philippine stock prices. Research in other countries has shown that new regulation has had a long-term effect in improving the information efficiency of stock prices. The paper
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INDIAN STOCK EXCHANGE. A few men‚ started one association under a banyan tree for trading some commodity/security in 1875 !! Who knew at that time that it would grow and would become NSE/BSE? Interesting? Read some finest events and milestones of Indian Stock Exchange. To study the history of the capital market in India we have to look back in eighteenth century when East India Company started security trading in India. Security trading in India was unorganised during that time. Until the end
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Presentation Derivative and its impact on capital market Derivative and its impact on capital market On Prepared by Ms. Vidhi Joshi Asst. Professor MBA Department T.N.Rao college of Management Studies Rajkot 1. Introduction to Derivative: The rapidity with which Indian capital market‚ corporate finance‚ banking and investment finance has witnessed a major transformation and structural change from the past one decade and this change in recent years has given birth to a new discipline that
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Case Problem 1: Measuring Stock Market Risk As indicated by the case study S&P 500 index was use as a measure of the total return for the stock market. Our standard deviation of the total return was used as a one measure of the risk of an individual stock. Also betas for individual stocks are determined by simple linear regression. The variables were: total return for the stock as the dependent variable and independent variable is the total return for the stock. Since the descriptive statistics
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How the Stock Market Works Why Do Companies Issue Stock? Companies throughout the world issue new stock shares every day. But what is stock‚ and why does a company issue it? To help you to better understand these important concepts in this tutorial we will discuss: What is Capital? Equity vs. Debt Why Do Corporations Issue Stock? Advantages for Stock Holders Let us begin by defining the word capital. What Is Capital? Let’s imagine that you decide to start up your own ice cream shop business
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Bangladesh handset market scenario- Oct’ 2013 Written by Syed Shakeel Ahmed Saturday‚ 26 October 2013 20:45 Bangladesh is emerging as one of the fastest growing mobile telephony markets across the globe. For many years‚ the Bangladesh mobile handsets market was dominated by ‘grey’ mobiles‚ which contributed 80% of the total handset shipments in the country until a few years ago has now fallen below 20% in the country. Nokia‚ which was a leader in Bangladesh lost market share with the growth
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