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 which
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What effect will a sudden increase in the volatility of gold prices have on interest rates? Agenda History of gold Influencing factors of gold price Volatility of gold Conclusion Historical development Gold Standard ◦ Until 1914 + interwar years USD Standard – Bretton Woods System ◦ After WW II until 1971 Since 1972: gold disconnected from USD ◦ Ordinary traded good ◦ Price determined by supply and demand Revision: Influence factors of demand Wealth Expected returs Expected
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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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Gold Loans ‘Lending with comfort’ Muthoot Finance – BUY CMP: Rs154 Target: Rs202 Largest gold financing company in the country with 20%+ market share AUM growth to moderate but remain strong on higher base NIM to decline on steep increase in funding cost; yield to be relatively resilient Earnings CAGR to remain brisk at 39% over FY11-13E RoA to marginally come-off; RoE to normalize India - a huge gold loan market India is one of the largest markets for gold accounting for ~10%
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the training and development function holds a key responsibility by helping employees to upgrade their performance on a continuous basis. This paper analyzes the status of various training and development practices in Life Insurance Corporation in India and explores the proposed link between the training and employees productivity. The study makes use of statistical techniques such as mean‚ standard deviation‚ Z test. Correlation analysis and regression analysis to process and analysis the data collected
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Surveying the Indian Gold Loan Market Executive Summary Gold has long been a valued commodity‚ particularly in India where it is considered auspicious‚ and has been in use for centuries in the form of jewelry‚ coins and other assets. Though gold is a highly liquid asset‚ it wasn’t until recently that consumers leveraged it effectively to meet their liquidity needs. Lenders provide loans by securing gold assets as collateral. Compared with the rest of the world‚ in India the gold loan market is big business
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that you will be forced to take because of the regulatory obsolescence is material- nearly a 20 percent reduction in income will result. If you can sell the inventory in a foreign market‚ legally‚ there will be no write-down and no income reduction. A reduction of that magnitude would substantially lower share market price‚ which in i=turn would lead your large your large‚ institutional shareholders to demand explanations and possibly seek changes in your company’s board of directors. In short‚ the
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reports‚ political factors like government policies and political unrest‚ commodity prices like price of crude oil and gold‚ social issues like war and terrorism‚ acts of God such as earth quakes and flood may cause the market to change direction or speed up or slow down its momentum. Most common of them are listed below. Inflation‚ Interest rates & Earnings High Speculative activity Demand and supply Oil/Energy Prices ‚War/terrorism ‚ Crime/fraud Serious domestic political unrest Uncertainty Inflation
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GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND NIGERIAN STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY Abdul ADAMU Department of Business Administration‚ Nasarawa State University‚ Keffi – Nasarawa State. adamuabdulmumeen@yahoo.com uooba1009@gmail.com Tel. +2348029445391‚ +2348064851648. Paper presented at the National Conference on “Managing the challenges of Global Financial Crisis in Developing Economies” organised by the Faculty of Administration‚ Nasarawa State University‚ Keffi‚ Nasarawa State – Nigeria held between March
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years_option=all_years&periods_option=specific_periods&periods=Annual+Data http://financeandinvestments.blogspot.com/2011/05/historical-annual-returns-for-s-500.html Jain‚ Rajiv‚ and Daniel Kranson. "The Myth of GDP and Stock Market Returns."2009. Web. 4 Mar. 2012. <http://www.virtus.com/vsitemanager/Upload/Docs/6141_GDPwhitepaper.pdf>. Rao‚ Rama. "Forecasting Future Returns." Financial Physics. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 5 Mar 2012. <http://www.financialphysics.net/future.html>. Bekaert‚ Geert‚ and Campbell
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