Questions tagged [stock-market]
Markets in which ownership stakes of firms (e.g. stocks/shares) can be traded.
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What is the maximum profit you can make short selling a commodity? [closed]
Let us assume that you have a commodity that has a market capitalization of $C_M$ (product of a number of units available and the price of one unit). What would be the maximum profit one could ...
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What makes a shareholder a “shareholder of record”?
In public companies filling some reports with the SEC (10K for example), there is a mention of the number of shareholders of record.
Example:
"As of April 20, 2021, we had approximately 40 ...
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Are return on investments “sticky”?
From what I understand in an economic downturn the wages are "sticky".
This results in increased unemployment.
To combat this the central bank according to monetarism lowers the interest ...
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Does investing in the stock market contribute to economic growth?
I am morally opposed to economic growth: I think that for the good of our planet we need to be shrinking human impact in pretty much every way, not increasing it.
If I invest in the stock market, I ...
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Are returns from secondary capital market funds (stocks and bonds) a form of unearned income?
If I own a bunch of market funds which hold securities from secondary capital markets (stock and bond markets), am I partaking in unearned income/economic rent?
Let me clarify what I my question is ...
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What is causing the difference between USA financial indexes and perceived economy?
While the world is facing economic problems since the spread of Covid-19 in Feb 2020, the main indexes in the world (S&P500 and NASDAQ100) reached and exceeded twice their maximum levels. I ...
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Relationship between stock market and exchange rate
I am looking for some references on the relationship between the stock market and the exchange rate, both from the empirical and theorical side.
Is there any theory which suggests a relationship ...
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Is “technical chart analysis” for stock development something that is scientifically supported?
I assume the answer is "no" because if you can predict the development of a stock then people would get very rich. However there are so many YouTube channels and web sites where people talk ...
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Is the fundamental analysis also a self-fulfilling prophecy?
John J. Murphy in the first chapter of his book "TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS" says that concerns regarding fundamental analysis being a self-fulfilling prophecy are seldomly ...
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Do actively managed ETFs help the economy in any way, and if so, how?
Listening to the ARK Invest podcast, I've heard several times ETF managers saying that they have a positive impact on the economy because by choosing the most promising companies to invest in, they ...
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Persons with high sentiment impact factor [closed]
I'm planning an empirical study on the impact of social media on the stock market.
Therefore I would like to pick out several people who could have a big impact with their posts on social media. ...
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Why would using real-time settlements have helped combat some of the chaos that occurred during the January 2021 GameStop saga?
I read on cnbc.com (mirror):
Tenev also advocated for real-time settlement instead of two-day settlement in order to help combat some of the chaos that occurred during the GameStop saga.
Why would ...
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Are financial markets “unique” for each “currency pair”, or are they simply “translated”?
This is something I've been long wondering about.
Let's say that I have statistics showing the daily closing Bitcoin price in USD since early 2009. Great. Now, if I wanted to get the daily closing ...
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What happened when the money from share issuance is spent?
Let's assume that new bank is incorporated and it issued 100 000 shares with nominal value odf $100.
Let's also assume that all shares are sold for the same price, so bank now has 10 million dollars.
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Why does US equities valuation have the downward pressure on USD?
While making readings on economics I came across a sentence:
..large valuation gap that has opened up between US equities and the rest of the world. This could help bid up non-US equity valuations and ...
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Buying and selling in the stock market
I am a total beginner to this, but from the few online videos about how (practical) trading works, I understand that when buyers dominate the market the prices go up and when sellers dominate the ...
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How can anyone possibly predict how the price of anything (stocks, Bitcoin, fiat, etc.) will change without “insider knowledge”? [closed]
Other than the fact that all centralized (and thus "quick") exchanges require KYC/AML nonsense, making it impossible for me to have an account there, I've never dared to even try once to &...
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Where do stocks get their value from? [duplicate]
I'm aware that some companies give out dividends to their shareholders, but are there companies that don't? And if they don't, what incentivizes people to buy stocks at the IPO? Is it simply the ...
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Are equity prices and stock prices the same?
Do we use in common language "equity price" as a synonym to "stock price"?
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Why do stocks that don’t pay any dividends change price when the company does better?
I don’t understand why (non-dividend paying) stocks increase in price when a company is successful; is it just because everyone expects that everyone else will find it more valuable because the ...
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Is it possible to peg a cryptocurrency to a stock or bond index?
What if the creators of a new cryptocurrency gave out new units of the cryptocurrency in exchange for shares of a stock or bond index fund, held these shares in reserves, and allowed owners of the ...
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Cointegration in stock market between different market places
Hi guys im interested in cointegration in stock market between Brazil, USA, London, China, India, Argentina and Hong Kong.
Since I want to compare each country’s index to the BR index, how do i do to ...
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Why do people think a stock should have a certain price based on the company's revenue?
Stock investment comes part and parcel with discussions about quarterly earnings, P/E ratios, and a host of other considerations designed to measure the "intrinsic value" of a stock and ...
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Why did the French not invest much in the stock market prior to 1990?
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_d%27%C3%A9pargne_en_actions says:
Le PEA a été créé en 1992 afin d'encourager l'investissement en bourse des particuliers, notoirement bas en France.
Google ...
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How does the fed pump the stock market [closed]
I've been hearing a lot about the fed "pumping the stock market" with trillions of dollars to maintain prices. I know the fed isn't allowed to actually buy stocks so how is this money being ...
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What is the intuition for the potential loss of market makers on LS-LSMR?
What risk do liquidity providers take on when they provide liquidity to an LS-LSMR automated market maker pool?
How much can they lose?
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How do stock index futures help an economy?
It seems that stock index futures affect economic growth, but I don't know how they work. Please can someone explain?
Thanks in advance~
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Why doesn't stock market help to boost the economic growth directly?
For example, during the recession, the central bank often goes to buy financial instruments that are riskier than government bonds (such as corporate bonds)- which is called "quantitative easing&...
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Does treasury pay interest+ face value to the fed?
heard all the profit that the fed makes goes into treasury.. does that mean the treasury department can make unlimited money buy selling bonds to the fed? like if they issue bond to people, and the ...
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If North American stock markets are semi-strong efficient, why are indices like S&P500 expected to grow?
I'm narrowing this question on Reddit's r/investing to North America. But don't hesitate to discuss other Five Eyes (FVEY) – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, US. I'm posting here because I ...
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Adjusted SHARE Price and Return calculation
I hope my queries makes sense as I am pretty new to business finance (not sure if it's appropriate to post here). To be honest, this query is related to the assignment from my school which I need to ...
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How does fed cutting federal fund rate affect student loan
If fed cuts rate, it means it's cutting federal fund rate right? then why do loans like credit card and stuend loan? those aren't like Mortgage rate which the fed cuts its rate by buying MBS
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How can the stock market keep growing indefinitely?
It sounds like a dumb question, but there is only so much money in the world. Assets can grow, but money can only be printed. So if there is 400 trillion dollars worth of money in the world, and the ...
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mortgage rate in 2008 [closed]
if banks and finanfial entity paniced, which cause people to stop lending which leads to higher interest rate, how did the mortage rate stayed the same in 2008? it barely dropped. It's kind of ...
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Bankruptcy Vs default
If a company files for bankruptcy, how come its stock still trades ?
E.g. On June 17, Wirecard was valued at more than $14 billion. Eight days later, it filed for the German equivalent of bankruptcy. ...
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What does it mean, 'Higher interest rates attract FIIs and FPIs'?
What would interest rates have anything to do with shares? When we say a higher interest rate attracts FII/FPI, does it not mean it is investing in shares of a company? For example, how does it help a ...
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Why haven't ARK's ETFs with 0.75% MERs been mimicked?
I surmise that fully duplicating ARK INVEST's ETFs may violate intellectual property law, so I utilise 'mimick' instead. ARK's website exhibits each of their ETFs' portfolios. So why haven't other ...
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Why does borrowability of shares inversely correlate with probability of assignment or exercise?
I transcribe 5:26 of this video. I don't know that YouTuber's credentials.
So looking back here, what could possibly
cause you to get assigned early? If we
look right here, AMD shares are listed as ...
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What is the mechanism that triggers a stock price change?
When discussing with my son basic economics (how the price is driven by demand, among others), I came to wonder which exact mechanism triggers a price change in a stock exchange.
In everyday life, ...
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Books and resources on how policies/regulations are made on exchanges like NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, etc?
Different stock exchanges (for example, NYSE vs KRX) have similar but different regulations overall. Each exchange has different concerns and each exchange has a different approach to handle problems ...
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Efficient market hypothesis and different performances between countries
When comparing historical gains (I used the "adjusted close" data on yahoo) of major indices in different countries it is clear that the US outperformed most of these by quite a bit (see for ...
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Why is a “reverse IPO” named as such?
Recently, there has been a lot of hype over a group of companies called "special purpose acquisition companies" (SPACs). SPACs are "shell companies" or "blank check companies&...
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If you short an ETF, who pays its MER?
I don't understand how u/Cruian's comment answers the original questions in that Reddit post.
The expense ratios are taken from the fund's holdings directly, you never see the change in your account ...
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Event Study vs. Difference-in-Differences
I am trying to perform Event Study methodology to analyse impact of group of events on group of stocks from certain sector. I noticed that I am getting surprisingly lot of positive results (very low p-...
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What are the pros and cons of a “long stock, short call” position compared to a “short put”?
The profit-loss diagram for the "long stock, short call" position and the "short put" position are almost exactly the same, except that for the former, you may be able to profit ...
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What happens to the stock market if no one wants to buy?
When the stock market crashes, if everyone wants to sell, who will buy? Is it possible that no one could sell his shares because no one wants to buy them? If so, what would happen? Would share price ...
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Why isn't the NYSE Composite mentioned as much as the Dow, S&P 500, or NASDAQ?
I happened upon this question at r/investing upon which this post is predicated, but I don't understand the answers there. I don't quote the OP verbatim for I emend his/her punctuation.
The Dow [DJI], ...
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What's a more accurate term than 'share price' that doesn't depend on (reverse) stock splits?
Purport that retail investors desire to invest in AAPL or TSLA (both have been reported to split their stock soon), because they think their "future share price" (after the stock split) will ...
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How is the cost of equity for a specific stock calculated using the Fama-French 5 factor model?
The Fama-French 5 factor model is as follows:
$$R_a = R_f + \beta_m \left( R_m - R_f\right) + \beta_s\text{SMB} + \beta_v\text{HML} + \beta_p\text{RMW} + + \beta_i\text{CMA}$$
It is quite easy to find ...
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How much real value has the stock market lost since Feb. 2020?
In this question I'm using the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund(VTSMIF), which for my purposes I find to be a sufficient indicator of the US market as a whole. (Please explain why this isn't an ...
