The Future of the Foreign Exchange Market Abstract This paper addresses the future of the foreign exchange market using two organizing(and provocative) ideas. One pertains to the market’s institutional structurthe other to its information structure. The first organizing idea is that thestructure of currency markets is driven primarily by the management of credit risk. This contrasts with drivers identified by microstructure theory (such as management of market risk‚ attenuation of asymmetric
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such as FDs offer safety and liquidity‚ but at the cost of return. Mutual funds seek to combine the advantages of investing in arch of these alternatives while dispensing with the shortcomings.Indian stock market is semi-efficient by nature and‚ is considered as one of the most respected stock markets‚ where information is quickly and widely disseminated‚ thereby allowing each security’s price to adjust rapidly in an unbiased manner to new information so that‚ it reflects the nearest investment value
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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‚ weekly and monthly
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boom took stock market to great heights. From 1920 to 1929 stocks more than quadrupled1 in value. Because of such high soaring stocks‚ they were considered as extremely safe investments. The common man believed stocks to be a “sure thing” thus researching little into the company whose stocks were being bought. Investors started purchasing stock on “margin”. Investors started getting more and more leverage through margin financing their stock investments. Because of this leverage‚ if a stock went up
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investment‚ market capitalization and adjusted on stock market using time series data from 1991 to 2011. A result shows that there is a significant relationship between foreign direct investment and stock market‚ as well as there is also a significant relationship between adjusted saving and stock market but there is insignificant relationship between market capitalization and stock market. Foreign direct investment‚ Market capitalization and Adjusted saving explains 90% of variation in the stock market
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COMMON Economics 9 (1981) 139-183. STOCK REPURCHASES North-Holland Publishing Company AND MARKET SIGNALLING An Empirical Study* Theo VERMAELEN lJ/niversity of British Columbia‚ Vancouver‚ BC‚ Canada V6T 2 W5 Received January 1980‚ final version received January 1981 This paper examines the pricing behavior of securities of firms which repurchase their own shares. The results are consistent with a market in which investors price securities such that
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In The Great Crash 1929‚ John Kenneth Galbraith considers the significance of the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression which followed. In the introduction‚ which was included for the 1988 release‚ he discusses the comparisons between the Great Crash of 1929 and the Crash of 1987. He refers to the date October 19‚ 1987‚ as "the most devastating day in the history of financial markets at least since the bursting of the South Sea Bubble." He asks‚ how many economists and investors were
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CENTRAL BANKS‚ STOCK EXCHANGE AND COMMERCIAL BANKS CENTRAL BANKS A central bank is the main national bank that provides a government and its commercial banking system with financial and banking services controlling the government’s monetary policy and issuing currency. Functions of a central bank include: • It has the sole right to issue currency – it maintains uniformity in the currency and manages it accordingly using knowledge about the economy • It is a banker‚ advisor and agent to the government
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Walmart: Every Day Low Prices In 1962 the company’s founder‚ Sam Walton‚ opened the first Walmart department store. Since then Walmart has grown exponentially and has established itself not only as one of America’s largest corporation‚ but also as one of the largest public corporations in the world. Walmart’s business model and cookie-cutter store model has allowed the company to gain a tight grip around the average American consumer. Walmart has grown successful in many other countries around
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297-307 Testing the Weak Form Efficiency of Karachi Stock Exchange Muhammad Arshad Haroon Assistant Professor of Commerce‚ Government Sindh College of Commerce and Post‚ Graduate Center‚ Hyderabad‚ Adjunct Assistant Professor of Commerce‚ Isra University‚ Hala Nakka‚ Hyderabad‚ Pakistan E-mail: arshad.haroon@isra.edu.pk Abstract In an efficient market‚ share prices reflect all available information. The study of efficient market hypothesis helps to take right decisions related to investments.
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