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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Institutional Investors in Indian Stock Market S S S Kumar* Abstract An important feature of the development of stock market in India in the last 15 years has been the growing participation of Institutional Investors‚ both foreign institutional investors and the Indian mutual funds combined together‚ the total assets under their management amounts to almost 18% of the entire market capitalization. This paper examines the role of these investors in Indian stock markets and finds that the market
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ASSIGNMENT) Financial Ratios and Stock Return: Evidence on selected Plantation Companies in Malaysia NAME : VICTORIA AK JUTI 28578 VENOSHNI A/P MANOGARAN 28577 PHUA WEE WEE 27952 TEOH CHIEN NI 28513 LING LING 26752 GROUP : 1 PROGRAMME : FINANCE Financial Ratio and Stock Return: Evidence on selected Plantation Companies in Malaysia Abstract This paper is to investigate the predictive ability of several financial ratios for stock return in Malaysia specifically
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I N 4600 ST O C K -T R A K Project Stock-Trak‚ Inc. provides students with an inexpensive‚ and reasonably realistic market simulation. Using real-time quotes‚ students may trade various securities in a hypothetical portfolio. Stock-Trak‚ Inc. maintains accounts‚ accepts trades‚ and sends out weekly summary reports. This document summarizes the rules that are specific to Dr. Mayes’ FIN 4600 class for the Fall 2010 semester. Students should also consult the Stock-Trak site for their rules. Each student
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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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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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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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The crash In the fall of 1929 the economy experienced one of the most devastating stock market downturns ever recorded. At the time the economy seemed to be prosperous and many investors felt the market was invincible and enjoyed their economic good fortune; it was a feeling that would soon be replaced with despair as an event unprecedented in scale and well beyond the imaginations of even the savviest investors loomed. The 1920s After World War 1 the United States experienced a period of sustained
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1929‚ the stock market crashed and millions lost their homes and jobs. This is important because it is apart of our American history. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was the biggest crisis to happen in America because it lead to the begging of the Great Depression and countless numbers of homeless and jobless people. In the twentieth century‚ most of the tools to produce things of value out of raw materials‚ in the United States‚ was represented by stocks. A corporation owned this stock. Ownership
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In 1929‚ the stock market crashed and people suffered. Everyone was affected by the crash and everyone said that they would never allow such a thing to happen ever again‚ but history repeated itself in the year 2008… The 1929 Stock Market crash started to brew at the start of the decade when people were buying a lot of stocks. Soon the stocks became overpriced for whatever the company was worth when the stock market was working turning at a high‚ Dow average of around 498. This was forming
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