CHAPTER 1 STOCK EXCHANGE 1.1 Key Terms in Stock Exchange • Shares: A company divides its capital into units of equal denomination which are offered for sale to raise capital. • Stock: The capital stock (or just stock) of a business entity represents the original capital paid into or invested in the business by its founders. It serves as a security for the creditors of a business since it cannot be withdrawn to harm the creditors. The stock of a business is divided into shares‚ the total
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“Sound organization structure is an essential prerequisite of efficient management” – Discuss this statement and point out the various principles which should be followed in developing organization structure Introduction Organization is the backbone of management. Without efficient organization‚ no management can perform its functions smoothly. Sound organization contributes greatly to the continuity and success of the enterprise. Once A. Carnegie‚ an American industrialist‚ said‚ “Take away our
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Pricing of Securities in Financial Markets 40141 – How well does the power utility consumption CAPM perform in UK Stock Returns? ******** 1 Hansen and Jagannathan (1991) LOP Volatility Bounds Volatility bounds were first derived by Shiller (1982) to help diagnose and test a particular set of asset pricing models. He found that to price a set of assets‚ the consumption model must have a high value for the risk aversion coefficient or have a high level of volatility. Hansen
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From the Efficient Market Hypothesis to Behavioral Finance How Investors’ Psychology Changes the Vision of Financial Markets by ADAM SZYSZKA Poznan University of Economics Poland adam.szyszka@ae.poznan.pl I. Introduction The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) has been the key proposition of traditional (neoclassical) finance for almost forty years. In his classic paper‚ Fama (1970) defined an efficient market as one in which “security prices always fully reflect the available information”
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29) All of the following features may be characteristic of preferred stock EXCEPT A) callable. B) no maturity date. C) tax-deductible dividends. D) convertible. Answer: c If a firm has class A and class B common stock outstanding‚ it means that A) each class receives a different dividend. B) the par value of each class is different. C) the dividend paid to one of the classes is tax deductible by the corporation
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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
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Stock Market Crash of 1929 Essay The stock market crash of 1929 ensuing the great depression affected the social‚ political‚ and economic setting of the 1930’s. Lasting till the mid 1930’s the economic depression devastated countries and common people’s lives. The problems that caused these affects are people in debt‚ greatly lower goods purchasing‚ and views of how government should play a role in citizen’s lives. Political conflicts of the government role in citizen’s lives raged throughout politics
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Introduction: Stock index is very much important leading indicator which can be used for several purposes. It can be used as a benchmark to judge the performance of professional money managers. It can be used to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of several types of index fund and exchange traded fund (ETF). Securities analysts‚ portfolio managers‚ and academicians doing research use stock market indexes to examine the factors that influence aggregate security price movements and to
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The Stock Market Crash was the one of the most substantial events to happen in America during the 1930’s and in all of American History. “The Great Crash”‚ as it is called by many‚ changed the way American stock market was run and the American way of life. This pushed new rules and regulations to be put into place that we could not do without today. The Stock Market crashed eighty percent in less than two weeks‚ leaving most stocks worth nearly nothing of what they used to be worth. The stocks fell
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The semi-presidential system (referred to as Semi-presidentialism) is a system of government in which a president and a prime minister are both active participants in the day-to-day administration of the state. It differs from a parliamentary republic in that it has a popularly elected head of state who is more than a purely ceremonial figurehead‚ and from the presidential system in that the cabinet‚ although named by the president‚ is responsible to the legislature‚ which may force the cabinet to
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