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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Markets What are the purpose and functions of stock exchanges as financial intermediaries? Financial intermediaries are institutions such as building societies‚ banks‚ stock exchanges and insurance companies. They all act as an intermediary between people‚ institutions or countries that may have high incomes‚ profits or surpluses and those that have lower incomes‚ losses and deficits. Some major stock exchanges around the world are: the New York stock exchange (NYSE)‚ NASDAQ‚ American (AMEX)‚ London
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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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A stock market index is a method of measuring a section of the stock market. Many indices are cited by news or financial services firms and are used as benchmarks‚ to measure the performance of portfolios such as mutual funds. Types of indices Stock market indices may be classed in many ways. A ’world ’ or ’global ’ stock market index includes (typically large) companies without regard for where they are domiciled or traded. Two examples are MSCI World and S&P Global 100. A national index represents
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Role of Dhaka Stock Exchange. 1. Meaning of Capital Market 2. Sub-Markets of Capital Market * The Primary Market * The secondary 3. ROLE OF CAPITAL MARKET 4. Capital Market of Bangladesh 5. SEC Regulating the CSE and DSE 6. Background of Dhaka Stock Exchange 7. Nature of Dhaka Stock Exchange * Public Market (Only trading of market lot share is done here through automatic matching) * Spot Market (Spot transactions are done here through automatic matching which must be settled
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The Karachi Stock Exchange or KSE is a stock exchange located in Karachi‚ Sindh‚ Pakistan. Founded in 1947‚ it is Pakistan’s largest and oldest stock exchange‚ with many Pakistani as well as overseas listings. Its current premises are situated on Stock Exchange Road‚ in the heart of Karachi’s Business District. The KSE is the biggest and most liquid exchange in Pakistan and in 2002 it was declared as the "Best Performing Stock Market of the World" by "Business Week". As of December 20‚ 2007‚ 671
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European-style options. For American options‚ the effect is unambiguous: Increasing the time to maturity always increases an option’s value because it increases the uncertainty of the spot exchange rate at maturity. When this effect is combined with the fact that the holder of a 6-month option can always treat the option as a 3-month option‚ we clearly see that the additional 3 months of maturity cannot hurt the payoff to the holder of the option as long as the holder of the option can exercise it
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Munich Personal RePEc Archive The Stock Market and the Economy in Pakistan Fazal Husain and Tariq Mahmood Pakistan Institute of Development Economics 2001 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4215/ MPRA Paper No. 4215‚ posted 24. July 2007 The Pakistan Development Review 40 : 2 (Summer 2001) pp. 107–114 The Stock Market and the Economy in Pakistan FAZAL HUSAIN and TARIQ MAHMOOD This paper re-examines the causal relationship between stock prices and macro variables like consumption
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Preferred Stocks Sarah Tester XACC/291 April 19‚ 2015 Lisa Cave Preferred Stocks Preferred stocks are referred to as such due to being valued over common stocks that are issued. Preferred stocks also have certain attributes that commons stocks do not offer which make them more appealing to potential investors. Preferred stocks will often pay out dividends before common stocks do‚ and that dividend rate is often higher than what common stock would receive. Preferred stock is sold as a way to raise
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Journal of Financial 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
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