INTRODUCTION Stock markets refer to a market place where investors can buy and sell stocks. The price at which each buying and selling transaction takes is determined by the market forces (i.e. demand and supply for a particular stock). Let us take an example for a better understanding of how market forces determine stock prices. ABC Co. Ltd. enjoys high investor confidence and there is an anticipation of an upward movement in its stock price. More and more people would want to buy this stock (i.e. high
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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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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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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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ABSTRACT This study tries to determine whether the Indian stock market is efficient by examining if the stock returns follow a random walk. Following previous studies‚ we use autocorrelation‚ the Box-Ljung test statistics and the run test and find that the Indian stock market was not efficient in the weak form during the testing period. The results suggest that the stock prices in India do not reflect all the information in the past stock prices and abnormal returns can be achieved by investors exploiting
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1 The Stock Market in India: Its Growth and Prospects. by Subid Chakraborty St. Xavier’s College‚ Kolkata (Autonomous) Email: subid_06@yahoo.co.in Rachit Agarwal St. Xavier’s College‚ Kolkata (Autonomous) Email: rachit_agarwal4u@yahoo.co.in Hemangi Desai St. Xavier’s College‚ Kolkata (Autonomous) Email: hemangi221@gmail.com Nilesh Agarwal St. Xavier’s College‚ Kolkata (Autonomous) Email: nilesh_airan@hotmail.com Acknowledgement: We are grateful to the faculty of the Department of Economics‚ St
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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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“STUDY ON STOCK MARKET VOLITALITY AN D ITS INFLUENCES ON INDIAN STOCK MARKET” Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Degree of Bachelor of Commerce (HONS) of Christ University during the year 2012-13. By D.Suresh 1010643 Under the guidance of S.Girish Assistant Professor Department of Commerce Christ University Bangalore- 560029 GUIDE CERTIFICATE This is to certify that this project titled “STUDY ON STOCK MARKET VOLITALITY
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