One of the main causes of the stock market crash in 1929 was panic. A while before October 29‚ 1929‚ the day of the crash‚ the stock market was unsteady‚ increasing and lowering in prices. Even though people were saying that the stock market was at an all time high‚ even fortune tellers trusted in stock and it was never going to lower‚ they could have never expected one of the greatest stock market crashes in history. Investors noticed the stock prices lower so they cancelled their investment to
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Exchange Rate Volatility: Impact on Industry Portfolios in Indian Stock Market K N Badhani*‚ Rajani Chhimwal** and Janki Suyal*** This study examines the interaction between changes in the exchange rate of Indian Rupee and returns on different BSE-based indices representing the firms of different sizes and industries. In absolute sense‚ the returns on all the stock portfolios are found to be positively correlated with the external value of Indian Rupee. However‚ the analysis with an extended market
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DERIVATIVES ON STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY: A STUDY OF THE NIFTY INDEX T. Mallikarjunappa1* and Afsal E. M.2 Department of Business Administration‚ Mangalore University‚ Mangalagangotri – 574199‚ Mangalore‚ DK‚ Karnataka‚ India 2 School of Management and Business Studies‚ Mahatma Gandhi University‚ P.D. Hills‚ Kottayam – 686560‚ Kerala State‚ India *Corresponding author: tmmallik@yahoo.com 1 ABSTRACT This paper studies the volatility implications of the introduction of derivatives on stock market volatility
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An Empirical Test of German Stock Market Efficiency A Master Thesis submitted by Lindsay Gillette (188816) to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Härdle in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science C.A.S.E. – Center for Applied Statistics and Economics Institute for Statistics and Econometrics Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin‚ Germany September 13‚ 2005 II Declaration of Authorship I hereby confirm that I have authored this master thesis independently and without
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FM 303 Revisiting Day-of-The-Week Effect in Indian Stock Market Authors:- Dr. Deepa Mangala Lecturer‚ Haryana School of Business‚ Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology‚ Hisar Mobile No. - 9416396883 Email Address- deepa_mangalabharti@rediffmail.com Monika Dhawan Student‚ M BA Final Year‚ Haryana School of Business‚ Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology‚ Hisar Mobile No.- 9896881380 Email Address- harshu_monika@yahoo.co.in ABSTRACT
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Do people have to die for things to be changed? In NASCAR officials are always looking at safety and standards that are always changing. NASCAR stands for the National Association for Stock Car Racing. NASCAR is always looking at and advancing in safety‚ because racing will always be dangerous‚ that is what gives the racers the thrill. The only thing that NASCAR can do is try to make the driver as safe as possible without compromising the racing thrill. NASCAR safety has dramatically improved as
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VARIABLES ON STOCK PRICES IN NIGERIA: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS UCHE‚ GEORGE EWA 2011 IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES ON STOCK PRICES IN NIGERIA: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS UCHE‚ GEORGE EWA 2007/147949 Being a research project submitted to the Department of Economics‚ in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics. AUGUST‚ 2011 i APPROVAL PAGE This research work on the topic‚ “IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES ON STOCK PRICES IN
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What do you understand by the term financialization? What factors are driving US firms to distribute more of their cash to shareholders? The Bombardment of the psyche of the average citizen by the financial industry in newspapers‚ magazines‚ television and the internet offering different financial services from mortgage loans to credit cards brings to mind a question raised by Ismail (2008:1) “ … if finance is everywhere does this mean that we have in some sense become financialized.” This essay
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ISSN (Print): 2319 – 801X www.ijbmi.org Volume 2 Issue 8ǁ August. 2013ǁ PP.17-22 Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Their Effect on Productivity: The Case of Huawei Zhibiao Zhu1‚ James Hoffmire2‚ John Hoffmire3‚ Fusheng Wang4 1‚3 Said Business School ‚University of Oxford; 2 School of Business‚ University of Wisconsin-Madision; 1‚4 School of Management‚ Harbin Institute of Technology ABSTRACT: Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) are utilized by many successful companies across the world. This
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A trillion-dollar industry is based on investing in or benchmarking to capitalization-weighted indexes‚ even though the finance literature rejects the mean–variance efficiency of such indexes. This study investigates whether stock market indexes based on an array of cap-indifferent measures of company size are more mean–variance efficient than those based on market cap. These “Fundamental” indexes were found to deliver consistent‚ significant benefits relative to standard cap-weighted indexes
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