THE VIETNAMESE STOCK MARKET By Roberta S. Karmel Thirty years ago‚ I never imagined I would be visiting Vietnam and be warmly welcomed as an American‚ witnessing a nation enjoying economic growth and increasing prosperity‚ despite some of the lingering ill effects of Agent Orange in the countryside. Yet‚ last month‚ as part of a delegation from the Financial Women’s Association‚ I had the good fortunate to travel to Vietnam and meet with government officials and others and learn about business developments
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Similarity between New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ are similar in a number of ways. For instance‚ both of the two exchanges take part in equity exchange. Additionally‚ they also try to connect consumers with traders or supply with demand. In United States‚ a number of equity trades take place on the two exchanges. The duties of people managing the trades are considered to be the same in certain conditions. Both of the exchanges make use of electronic
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Stock exchange A stock exchange is a form of exchange which provides services for stock brokers and traders to trade stocks‚ bonds‚ and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for issue and redemption of securities and other financial instruments‚ and capital events including the payment of income and dividends. Securities traded on a stock exchange include shares issued by companies‚ unit trusts‚ derivatives‚ pooled investment products and bonds. To be able to trade a security
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A stock market or equity market is a public entity (a loose network of economic transactions‚ not a physical facility or discrete entity) for the trading of company stock (shares) and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately. The size of the world stock market was estimated at about $36.6 trillion at the beginning of October 2008.[1] The total world derivatives market has been estimated at about $791 trillion face or nominal
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institution for the mobilization of finance from the surplus sectors to the deficit sectors. The development of capital market in Nigeria‚ as in other developing countries has been induced by the government. Though prior to the establishment of stock market in Nigeria‚ there existed some less formal market arrangements for the operation of capital market. It was not prominent until the visit of Mr. J. B. Lobynesion in 1959‚ on the invitation of the Federal government‚ to advice on the role the
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Abstract Nowadays it is a key issue to forecast the stock market. Forecasting stock market depends on forecasting the volatility by different linear or non-linear models. The volatility of asset returns is time-varying and predictable‚ but forecasting the future level of volatility is very difficult. Hence‚ in this study we have provided a simple‚ yet highly effective framework for forecasting a stock market by considering the transition probability and long run probability of different classified
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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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VOLATILITY AND RISK RETURN IMPLICATION OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL MELTDOWN FOR THE NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE. By Ifeanyi O. Nwanna Reg. No:2006417001P Being a Seminar Paper Presented to the Department of Banking And Finance‚ Faculty Of Management Sciences‚ Nnamdi Azikiwe University‚ Awka in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D) in Banking and Finance Course Code: Fin 703- Theory and Practice of Money
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A company may issue both stocks and bonds which can be a sign of the company’s financial standing in a market. Since investors are risk averse and they would not like to put their money on stocks and bonds of a struggling company‚ but they would like to put their money on stocks and bonds of a stable and a progressing company. Investors benefit from company’s profit in the form of dividend when they buy a company’s stocks and investors can get higher or lower yield based on the bonds. This is the
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Journal One - The Stock Market Game First submission Date 26/10/2009 | Table 1 | | | Company | Shares bought | Share Price | Change | 3i Group | 2000 | £2.95 | £5‚900.00 | BP | 2000 | £5.65 | £11‚300.00 | Prudential | 4000 | £6.33 | £25‚320.00 | Sainsbury’s | 2000 | £3.39 | £6‚780.00 | | | | | TOTAL | | | £49‚300.00 | CASH HELD | | | £50‚700.00 | | | | | Original amount | | | £100‚000.00 | Profit/Loss | | | 0 | I will undertake
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