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 economic sense in multiplying standard deviation by the root of the sample size?

I found an example when a so-called volatility index is calculated by multiplication of a sample standard deviation by the ...
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How does stock market drop affect the economy if it doesn't affect the corporations?

Sorry if it's a basic question. Suppose corporation ABC went through public offering many years ago. ABC retained 30% of the shares, and 70% are being traded. The very initial offering, ABC made ...
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what would be an efficient investment when central banks have massive qe?

Recently the central bank said in a statement on its website. “Aggressive efforts must be taken across the public and private sectors to limit the losses to jobs and incomes and to promote a swift ...
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Do large- and mid-caps try to shun low share prices?

As NASDAQ and NYSE stocks must be priced at least $1 per share, it feels intuitive and doubtless that large- and mid-caps fancy their share prices to outstrip and remain well over \$1. But what ...
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What mechanisms are at work when the market falls dramatically one day and then rises just as dramatically the next?

We've seen this scenario several times over the past few weeks: The major stock market indexes will plummet one day and then rise dramatically (though perhaps not to the previous days starting price) ...
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Why does the stock market tend to grow over time

At its most basic, the value of a stock depends on how much people are willing to pay an entity that already owns the stock to transfer ownership. The question is, why does the amount people are ...
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How can I estimate the disconnect between book value and market capitalisation?

There are several questions on Stack Exchange as to what difference the stock price makes to a company after its IPO. Surely, management cares, it is important to be credible to trading partners, etc. ...
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Why does Samuelson say common stocks are better than bonds and preferred stocks during inflation?

I’m reading the first edition of Paul Samuelson’s Economics (1948). In Chapter 6, “Business Organization and Income,” after describing bonds, preferred stocks, and common stocks, he writes: To test ...
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Shouldn't national Stock Indices proportional to GDP of the country?

I was looking at Japan: Japan's GDP trajectory and Nikkei 225. It seems from 2011 - 2015 the GDP contracted but the Nikkei has gone up. Would there be a good explanation for this ?
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What does it mean for a firm to have a 0.95% dividend?

Here's an Apple's dividend: What does this 0.95% mean? Is it 0.95% of share capital? If not, what does it mean?
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List of stock and bond indexes for countries

I am doing some master`s degree research and looking for the list of stock/bond indexes for developed and developing countries. So the excel-file I should gather in the end will look like this: ...
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Open offer made by companies to take over [closed]

What is open offer in simple terms? What is its meaning in cases of taking over the major stakes in other company?
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Commonly used indicators for currency pair strength?

I am attempting to write a program in Python that monitors a single currency pair, GPB/NZD to be specific. My main focus will be to run constant calculations every 2 to 3 minutes in order to give ...
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Why does a company want the value of its stocks to be as high as possible?

My professor claims that a company want the value of its stocks will be as high as possible. Why should the company care? The company "minds its own business" and make its money. Why should it cares ...
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Is this lottery like stock market? [closed]

Consider the following imaginary lottery (motivated by Massachusetts' Cash WinFall): Ticket money obtained in the previous draw are given to the participants of the next draw proportionally to the ...
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Where to find a list of marketplaces (NYSE,LSE) and the financial products they offer?

I'm looking for a list (csv/json/api...) of all marketplaces (New York Stock Exchange...) and the financial products that are offered on those market places. Preferrably worlwide but US and EU will ...
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Average Return for Commodity

Suppose I have a function of a varying values represented by randomness. A stock or price of a commodity would be a good example. What is the average return for that stock on any given interval of ...
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Can a government invest in public companies so their dividends can finance the government

Is it possible that a country could use the money in its sovereign wealth fund to invest in different country's Stock Market and use the dividends to finance its government thus increasing spending ...
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How to find data about earning per share of S&P 500

I am working on a small project regarding PE ratio of SP500,for which I need historic earning per share data of SP500. I searched finance yahoo, but it has only prices data. Could anyone tell me the ...
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How time zones affects causality?

Considering that markets open in different time zones, in general the opening and closing times are different. I suppose that a stock market opening later (in the same day) receive information on the ...
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Is this market monopoly or duopoly?

Could you help me to identify monopoly, because I got confused. There is a company with market share of 54 %. The second one has market share of 21 %. Can this market be characterized as monopoly or ...
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Is it possible for shareholders to get a companies assets in place of currency?

To my knowledge being a shareholder is owning a portion of a company. Then by that logic shouldn't a shareholder be able to request a companies assets instead of money? As an example, if I own 100 ...