In the case of bankruptcy‚ bonds generally provide more safety than stocks. You can read more about why here. Bonds vs. Stocks: Lender vs. Shareholder When you buy a stock‚ what you are buying is a small piece (or a large piece if you are someone like Warren Buffet!) of ownership in a company. As an owner you have special privileges‚ including the ability to vote on matters that affect the future of the company. More importantly however‚ is the fact that as a stockholder you have the right to
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FASB Codification Case #1 Treasury Stock Paragraph 505-30-30-3 considers that “. If the purchase of treasury shares includes the receipt of stated or unstated rights‚ privileges‚ or agreements in addition to the capital stock‚ only the amount representing the fair value of the treasury shares at the date the major terms of the agreement to purchase the shares are reached shall be accounted for as the cost of the shares acquired”‚ and further the section mentions that “the price paid in excess
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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. The true importance
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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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Investment Management and Financial Innovations‚ 3/2005 25 Stock Market Interdependence during the Iraq War Stefano Paleari‚ Renato Redondi‚ Silvio Vismara Abstract This paper aims to show how consolidated and innovative methodologies can be employed to assess the financial impact of a global shock. Particularly‚ we consider the Iraq War in 2003 and its impact on the market indexes of five of the most capitalised stock markets in the world‚ U.S.‚ U.K.‚ France‚ Germany and Italy. After using
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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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Differences between Preferred and Common Stock All stock is not created equal. Companies offer two main types of stock: common and preferred stock‚ each with its share of advantages and disadvantages for investors. Preferred and common stocks are different in two key aspects. First‚ preferred stockholders have a greater claim to a company’s assets and earnings. This is true during the good times when the company has excess cash and decides to distribute money in the form of dividends to its
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A Microeconomic Study of the Indian Stock Market A brief overview of the Indian stock market 3 Purpose of the stock exchange 3 PRIMARY MARKET 3 SECONDARY MARKET 4 Role of ‘Supply and demand’ on the stock price movement 4 EVOLUTION OF MARKET STRUCTURE AND THE SELF REGULATORY APPROACH 5 Traditional structure of the stock exchanges: 5 Changes in the market structure and demutualization: 5 Stock Markets as Perfectly Competitive markets: 6 Transaction
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Stock Prices and the Publication of Second-Hand Information Author(s): Peter Lloyd Davies and Michael Canes Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of Business‚ Vol. 51‚ No. 1 (Jan.‚ 1978)‚ pp. 43-56 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2352617 . Accessed: 25/02/2013 12:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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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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