factors like GDP and earnings reports‚ political factors like government policies and political unrest‚ commodity prices like price of crude oil and gold‚ social issues like war and terrorism‚ acts of God such as earth quakes and flood may cause the market to change direction or speed up or slow down its momentum. Most common of them are listed below. Inflation‚ Interest rates & Earnings High Speculative activity Demand and supply Oil/Energy Prices ‚War/terrorism ‚ Crime/fraud Serious domestic
Premium Stock market Stock Economics
04/29/13 Stock Market Game Paper My overall strategy to make high returns in this simulation was to buy shares at low prices then sell them at high. I planned to invest in bigger industries because I thought they’d be making the most money‚ I also thought it’d be best to buy shares when the market was going down‚ hoping it’d go back up to sell it again‚ that’s what helped me pick my stocks. One company I chose to purchase was the Wells Fargo & Company because I looked into its profile and the
Premium Investment Stock market Stock
Empirical Evidences on Weak Form Stock Market Efficiency: The Indian Exprience Ramesh Chander Kiran Mehta Renuka Sharma Weak form efficiency hypothesis (EMH) stipulates that asset prices fully reflect information contained in past stock prices. The present study documents extensive evidence on price behavior in the Indian stock markets. One of the striking features of the results is that runs analysis too exuberate weak form efficiency further and the instances of return drift noted earlier have
Premium Stock market BSE Sensex Stock
is documented as the worst stock market crash in history. There are several factors which affect the stock market crash in 1987. However‚ the popular explanation for the crash is the selling of program trader‚ portfolio insurance and the great storm of 1987. Program trading is the use of computers in stock market to engage in arbitrage and portfolio insurance strategies. Through the 1970s and early 1980s‚ computers were becoming more important. As a result‚ the market was being controlled more
Premium Wall Street Crash of 1929 Stock market Great Depression
roles. Stock Market A stock market is a public market for the trading of company stock or shares. The market function is where companies can raise funds for their business by issuing shares to investors. Also‚ where the investors can buy and/or sell these shares. Companies benefit from this because‚ market values for their shares are high‚ and they will be able to raise additional capital if they need to. Stock market is an important part of the economy of a country. The stock market plays a
Premium Finance Corporate finance Bank
unemployment rate was very low. Life was so beautiful‚ and many people achieved their American Dream. Some people Started having a bigger dream by buying some stocks in the many firms such as General Motors‚ General electric’s and Ford. However‚ late in the 1920s‚ the United States had had the biggest economic disaster that they had ever had. The stock market crashed; as a result‚ many people lost everything overnight‚ so people who were rich the day before would get poor the next days. Many people lost their
Premium Wall Street Crash of 1929 Great Depression United States
1. Introduction Capital markets are the promoter of economic expansion of a country engaged in exchange of capital instruments‚ like securities‚ bonds‚ treasury bills‚ notes etc to achieve economic goals. In Bangladesh‚ there are 2 stock exchanges. Dhaka Stock Exchange (Generally known as DSE) is the main stock exchange of Bangladesh. East Pakistan Stock Exchange Ltd was finally named as Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on 14 May 1964. Although incorporated in 1954‚ formal trading started in 1956. Prior
Premium Stock market Stock exchange Economic growth
The Stock Market and Corporate Investment: A Test of Catering Theory Christopher Polk London School of Economics Paola Sapienza Northwestern University‚ CEPR‚ and NBER We test a catering theory describing how stock market mispricing might influence individual firms’ investment decisions. We use discretionary accruals as our proxy for mispricing. We find a positive relation between abnormal investment and discretionary accruals; that abnormal investment is more sensitive to discretionary accruals
Premium Stock market Stock
Money and Capital Markets Current Trends in Indian Stock Markets (April - June 2013) Introduction The Indian Equity market is divided in to two parts Primary market - where the share is first issued in the form of IPO (Initial Public Offering). After issuing the shares it is listed on one or more exchanges and the share is traded i.e. bought and sold - this is secondary market. When securities are offered exclusively to the existing shareholders of company‚ as opposed to the general
Premium Stock market Stock exchange Central bank
Volatile Stock Behavior at the event of Dividend Announcement: Evidence from Indian Capital Market (National Stock Exchange of India) ABSTRACT This paper analyses the impact of dividend announcement on company stock returns for 25 companies listed in five different indices on National Stock Exchange (NSE) i.e. Indian Capital Market. The study has been conducted with the help of event study methodology for a window of 31 days in total. The study gives a comparative analysis of the stock returns
Premium Stock market