Questions tagged [stock-market]
Markets in which ownership stakes of firms (e.g. stocks/shares) can be traded.
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Why people bought stocks in open outcry?
The human nature is to hide business strategy from business rivals, so how come stock exchange brokers brokers bought and sold shareholdings in open outcry directly in front of their rivals?
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Are there stock exchange public offerings aimed for a fixed number of buyers?
If I am not mistaken any public offering is locked after "enough" entities have become shareholders (after a certain amount of money was invested/promised).
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If a stock is traded in two or more markets, can it have different prices?
If a stock is traded in two or more markets, can it have different prices (each price in each market will be different)?
What may cause such a situation?
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Every company owner is a shareholder but not every shareholder is a company owner
A shareholder to me generally means someone who holds a certain percentile amount of share on profits from a company as dividends and/or by selling the company; this person may or may not be an owner ...
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Does selling multiple shareholdings restrictively common?
A company sales shareholding only for 2 potential shareholders (or any number larger than 2 of potential shareholders).
This is not an auction to sale shareholding for just one potential shareholder ...
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Today, can one buy stocks in a stock exchange market without being a registered member of that market? [migrated]
Stock exchange markets are not my expertise and I don't know all the markets in the world (let along the history of generally any one of these markets), but all those I know do require registered ...
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The Amsterdam stock exchange market
The Dutch East India Company (founded in 1602) was the first joint-stock company to get a fixed capital stock and as a result, continuous trade in company stock occurred on the Amsterdam Exchange.
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What is the "highly diversified markets"?
USA and Europe are considered as "highly diversified markets". Does it mean that these stock markets have companies from a wide range of industries? I am wondering what does it mean. I just ...
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How does "Buffet Indicator" work when market cap(nominator) is daily & GDP(denominator) is quarterly?
Simple question about "Buffet Indicator", but more like a question regarding the economic indicators in general.
Buffet Indicator = mkt cap / GDP
But as stated in the title, the market cap ...
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Why emerging stock markets are where investors diversify and hedge against the country-specific uncertainty of their local stock markets?
Civilize, 2015 states that
Our study focuses on emerging stock markets of countries that have a
history of military rule. An investigation of these markets is
valuable for investors, particularly ...
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Is there any source talking about some stock behave similar to Gamestop from 12/2020 to 2/2021?
From 12/2020 to 2/2021 is the time that the price of Gamestop stocks drastically increases. I am wondering is there any US stock that also behaves the same (incidental increase) during this time ...
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Can we 'predict' the delta of a stock? The delta of a stock is $\pm 1$ right? [closed]
A stock is like a living organism. A sparrow, say. And we are able to create an emergent-based abstraction of that sparrow, which closely approximates the sparrow itself, accounting for migration ...
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What determines the price of a stock other than supply and demand?
It is said that supply and demand determine the price of stocks but there must be other factors. For example when a company is about to expand the price will usually go up. Why? (The answer that it is ...
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Rationalising today's bond market and stock market
As of this writing, the 10-year T note yields 1.437%, on a steady 3-month downward trend (from 1.55-1.75% in recent months) while the S&P 500 is nearing all-time-highs. When these long-term bond ...
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Are short squeezes becoming more common, and if so, why?
This year I have read about short squeezes more often than any time in the past. Are short squeezes becoming more common, and if so, why?
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What is the relationship between interest rates and stock values
I have started reading the book After the music stopped and came across a section which I couldnt quite understand.
This is the following passage
the fundamental determinants of
stock values are ...
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Black-Litterman Weights for Intersecting Asset Classes
I'm trying to implement Black-Litterman for an arbitrary selection of assets some of which might be subsets or intersect with others.
For example, one portfolio might be
US Equities (VTI)
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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 ...