...between 3-Month T-bill rate and Dow Jones Index Index 1. Introduction………………………………………………3 2. Modeling the relationship between the 3-Month T-bill rates and Dow Jones Index (First Model)……………………3 3. Hypothesis and Testing…………………………………...4 4. Empirical Analysis………………………………………...5 5. Further Comparison………………………………………5 6. Conclusion…………………………………………………7 7. Appendix……………………………………………………8 8. Reference…………………………………………………..10 1. Introduction The 3-month T-bill rates and Dow Jones index are really close to the whole economic environment; the 3-month T-Bill rates are the preeminent default-risk-free rates in the US money market that is often used by researchers to proxy the risk-free asset whose existence is assumed by much conventional finance theory. Given their importance and visibility, it is not surprising that these interest rates has been studied extensively in economic and finance. Dow Jones Index, undoubtedly, is one of the most important economic indicators of the global financial market, This paper investigates the relationship between these two important economic data. In order to cover the business circle, the data which I choose is from 2001/01/01-2010/12/31, including the subprime lending crisis period. I use SAS and excel to get the information which indicates the relationship between these two representing data. 2. Modeling the relationship between the 3-Month T-bill rates and Dow Jones Index (First Model) In order to present...
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...SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc. isn’t the only social-media company marking the anniversary of its public trading debut this week. LinkedIn Corp. LNKD, +0.36% will celebrate the second anniversary of its initial public offering on Sunday, a day after Facebook FB, -1.53% marks its first birthday as a public company. In LinkedIn’s case, “celebrate” is the appropriate word. “LinkedIn has been the belle of the social IPO ball,” analyst Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates told MarketWatch. While it didn’t attract the pop culture frenzy that Facebook enjoyed, the LinkedIn IPO will be remembered as one of the most successful social-media trading debuts in history. LinkedIn shares edged up by a fraction to close at $182.35 on Friday. That’s roughly four times their IPO price of $45. When it debuted on May 19, 2011, the stock more than doubled to close at $94.25. On the other hand, Facebook ended its debut trading day with a gain of 23 cents. LinkedIn’s debut was supposed to be just the first wave of social-media IPOs that was expected to reach a high point with Facebook. LinkedIn didn't just have a far more successful trading debut, it has maintained a solid momentum. ‘LinkedIn has tapped into a core set of jobs that professionals want to get done around managing your professional network, looking for a new job, refining your skills. They kind of disrupted the Rolodex.’ Crawford Del Prete, IDC analyst LinkedIn has more than 225...
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...interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $104 million in 2013. The shares, which traded as high as 31 times annual sales...Reducing its multiple from 22 times annual sales now to that level by 2014 would require... To bring its price-sales ratio in line with the Dow Jones Internet Services Index multiple of 3.7... More than 30 million shares changed hands the first day of trading, 3.8 times the amount sold to the public...About 85.7 million shares owned by insiders and money managers start to become eligible for trading 180 days after the IPO. ...is probably able to convert about 15 percent of its sales into EBITDA, and may generate $680 million in revenue next year... While it trades for a higher price-to-sales ratio than its peers, it’s also growing faster. MySocialMedia’s valuation of 22 times sales compares with an average of 9.2 times estimated 2012 revenue at Web business software companies... ...a comeback in venture-capital IPOs propelled MySocialMedia.com to a high of $122 in its first day of trading from an initial price of $45. With a market value of $8.4 billion, the company must boost revenue to bring its price-sales ratio in line with the Dow Jones Internet Services Index by 2014... As an equity analyst, using the materials covered in MSF 535 and the news clippings presented above, provide a maximum of a three page analysis of MySocialMedia.com for your...
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...Assignment no 2 | Fundamental And Technical Analysis of Dow Jones | Trading and Exchange | | Submitted by Muhammad Suleman Usama Khan | Reg # L1S14MBAM0041 | Submitted To: Sir Nizam Feroz | Introduction: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is also called the Industrial Average, the Dow 30, or simply the Dow market, is a stock market index. The industrial average was first calculated on May 26, 1896. Currently owned by S&P Dow Jones Indices, which is majority owned by McGraw-Hill Financial, it is the most notable of the Dow Averages, of which the first (non-industrial) was first published on February 16, 1885. It is an index that shows how 30 large publicly owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market. 6-july-2015 Explanation: On 6-july-2015 the trend in the US-30 or Dow Jones industrial was bearish which shows that market’s closing was at low than its opening (i.e. open at 17,728.08 and close at 17,683.58). During the day the stock traded at highest price of 17,734.36 and the lowest price was about 17,564.36 The market was bearish because most of the performers went worst. The worst performers of the session were Cater pillar Inc. (CAT), Chevron corporation (CVX), General electric (GE) etc. Except of bad performers the companies which outperform during the day were Apple Inc., American Express Company, and The Boeing etc. News released on 6-july-2015 was about one of the listed...
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...Problem 1 a. How is Dow Jones index computed? Write 1 paragraph on the history of when the Dow Jones Index was first initiated. Computation Method: Dow Jones is a price-weighted index. So, to calculate the DJIA, the sum of the prices of all 30 stocks is divided by a devisor which is named the Dow Divisor. The divisor is adjusted in case of stock splits, spinoffs or similar structural changes, to ensure that such events do not in themselves alter the numerical value of the DJIA. Early on, the initial divisor was composed of the original number of component companies; which made the DJIA at first, a simple arithmetic average. The present divisor, after many adjustments, is less than one (meaning the index is larger than the sum of the prices of the components). That is: Where p is the prices of the component stocks and d is the Dow Divisor. Events like stock splits or changes in the list of the companies composing the index alter the sum of the component prices. In these cases, in order to avoid discontinuity in the index, the Dow Divisor is updated so that the quotations right before and after the event coincides: History: Dow Jones & Co. was founded in 1882 by Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. Despite popular belief, the first averages were not published in the Wall Street Journal but in its precursor, called the Customer's Afternoon Letter. The first averages didn't even include any industrial stocks. The focus was on the growth stocks of...
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...its stock is 10%, what is the equilibrium price of the stock? (b) How can you find if your own 10% estimate of the stock’s required rate of return is shared by the rest of the market? (c) Now assume that the required estimate of 10% is shared by the market, what does the market price of $50.00 per share imply about the market’s estimate of the company’s growth rate? $1 $100 10% 10% 95% $10 $180 10% 10% 50% $15 $200 10% 15% 25% Question 3 Starting date: Closing Prices on the date (Nov 5) of the submission date of Problem Set 6 Ending Date: Closing Prices, Nov 24. Assume that you have $100,000 that you decided to invest in either 1 company or 2 companies from the 30 companies that are listed below (these are the companies that the dow index is constructed from). Your performance in problem set 10 will be evaluated according to: (return of your portfolio minus Rf)/ Beta of the portfolio In the evaluation, we will make few simplifying assumptions: 1. The Beta of each share will be taken from Yahoo finance. 2. For simplicity you will be given a constant rate for the Rf =0. Yet the evaluation is in problem set 10 – so what do you need to do for THIS problem set? For this...
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...indexes is . quite large. For many of us, the level of the Dow or . the S&P 500 is known. How about the Nikkei 225? Or . the FTSE 100? Do you know what countries these . represent? ------------------------------------------------- Types of indices Stock market indices may be classed in many ways. A 'world' or 'global' stock market index includes (typically large) companies without regard for where they are domiciled or traded. Two examples are and S&P Global 100. A 'national' index represents the performance of the stock market of a given nation—and by proxy, reflects investor sentiment on the state of its economy. The most regularly quoted market indices are national indices composed of the stocks of large companies listed on a nation's largest stock exchanges, such as the American S&P 500, the Japanese Nikkei 225, and the British FTSE 100. Other indices may be regional, such as the FTSE Developed Europe Index or the FTSE Developed Asia Pacific Index. The concept may be extended well beyond an exchange. The Wilshire 5000 Index, the original total market index, represents the stocks of nearly every publicly traded company in the United States, including all U.S. stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange (but not ADRs or limited partnerships), NASDAQ and American Stock Exchange. Russell Investment Group added to the family of indices by launching the Russel Global Index. More specialized indices exist tracking the performance of specific...
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...Rusul Meften, Dec- 2-2015 The Dow Jones Average 1. On May 26, 1896 for the first time an average consisting entirely of 12 industrial stocks is published. To see the list of these 12 companies (as well as all such lists from 1896 to the present),. On October 4, 1916 it was calculated on the stock prices of 20 companies and finally on October 1, 1928 it was increased to 30 companies, the same number as it is today. 2. A stock exchange based in New York City, which is considered the largest equities-based exchange in the world based on total market capitalization of its listed securities. A market index tracks the performance of a specific "basket" of stocks considered to represent a particular market or sector of the U.S. stock market or the economy. There are indices for almost every conceivable sector of the economy and stock market. Many investors are familiar with these indices through index funds and exchange-traded funds whose investment objectives are to track the performance of a particular index. 3. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is important to investors because it is a model for investment products. The Dow Jones Company licenses its index for the creation of mutual funds, exchange traded funds and futures investments. These products trade not only on the U.S. exchanges, but also on international exchanges in Tokyo, London and Toronto. This gives the DJIA added significance for investors worldwide. Also The Dow Jones is important to investors because it...
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...1874 and in 1875 became an official organization known as 'The Native Share & Stock Brokers Association'. In 1956, the BSE became the first stock exchange to be recognized by the Indian Government under the Securities Contracts Regulation Act. The Bombay Stock Exchange developed the BSE SENSEX in 1986, giving the BSE a means to measure overall performance of the exchange. In 2000 the BSE used this index to open its derivatives market, trading SENSEX futures contracts. The development of SENSEX options along with equity derivatives followed in 2001 and 2002, expanding the BSE's trading platform. The equity market capitalization of the companies listed on the BSE was US$1 trillion as of December 2011, making it the 6th largest stock exchange in Asia and the 14th largest in the world.[1] The BSE has the largest number of listed companies in the world. As of December 2011, there are over 5,112 listed Indian companies and over 8,196 scrips on the stock exchange,[3] the Bombay Stock Exchange has a significant trading volume. The BSE SENSEX, also called "BSE 30", is a widely used market index in India and Asia. Though many other exchanges exist, BSE and the National Stock Exchange of India account for the majority of the equity trading in India. While both have similar total market capitalization (about USD 1.6 trillion), share volume in NSE is typically two times that of BSE. ii. Shanghai Stock...
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...the consumer. He was passionate about his products and its quality. Jobs never released a product that he felt was inferior in any way. He knew his vision and his success come from the clear understanding and following of the vision (Young Entrepreneur Council, 2013). His vision and direction really helped the company sustain a competitive advantage. It became clear in the stock market that people believed not necessarily in the company but rather in the Jobs visionary leadership. When Jobs would take a sabbatical, the stock would drop and when he would return, stock rose (Wearden, G, 2011). Jack Welch Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric (GE) for 21 years. GE is the only company that was listed in the original Dow Jones index that remains today (GE, 2014, para 3). Today, it operates in more...
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...rules and regulations on the firms and brokers that are involved with them. If a particular company is traded on an exchange, it is referred to as "listed". Companies that are not listed on a stock exchange are sold OTC (short for Over-The-Counter). Companies that have shares traded OTC are usually smaller and riskier because they do not meet the requirements to be listed on a stock exchange. Stock Market Evaluation There are three major indexes to evaluate the overall performance of the stock market. These indices are discussed in more detail below: The Dow Jones The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is one of the oldest, most well-known and most frequently used indexes in the world. It includes the stocks of 30 of the world's largest and most influential companies. The DJI is what's known as a price weighted index. It was originally computed by adding up the per-share price of the stocks of each company in the index and dividing this sum by the number of companies. This is why it's called an average. Unfortunately, it is no longer this simple to calculate. Over the years, stock splits, spin-offs and other events have resulted in changes in the divisor, making it a very small number (investorguide). The DJI represents about a...
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...U.S. and European equity-index futures and Asian stocks retreated with the dollar, while Treasuries advanced after better-than-estimated Chinese growth and production data dimmed prospects for wide-scale stimulus to spur expansion. Standard & Poor’s 500 Index futures dropped 0.4 percent by 7:13 a.m. in London as contracts on the Euro Stoxx 50 Index slid 0.4 percent. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index retreated after its biggest jump in two years yesterday. Ten-year Treasury yields declined five basis points. The yen jumped 0.6 percent and the euro strengthened 0.2 percent as the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.2 percent. Gold touched a five-week high. While China’s economy expanded 7.3 percent in the third quarter from a year before, beating estimates for growth of 7.2 percent, it was still the slowest pace since 2009. China’s Communist Party leadership convenes its policy-setting plenum this week. The European Central Bank started buying covered bonds yesterday, people familiar with the move said, as it seeks to stave off the threat of deflation. “China’s data shows growth remains lackluster in the second half even though the government undertook stimulus and injected liquidity in the market,” said Benjamin Tam, a Hong Kong-based portfolio manager at IG Investment Ltd. “There won’t be big stimulus but there could be mini stimulus in the coming months. The focus is on the fourth plenum to see whether there could be significant changes in the reform policy.” The Asia-Pacific...
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...10/23/2014 Global Growth Woes Threaten to Beset U.S. Economy - WSJ - WSJ This copy is for your personal, non-c ommercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your c olleagues, c lients or customers visit http://www.djreprints.com. http://online.wsj.com/articles/global-growth-woes-threaten-to-beset-u-s-economy-1413924119 ĚČǾŇǾMỲ Fįvě-Ỳěǻř Řěčǿvěřỳ Fǻčěș Ŀǻțěșț Țěșț ǿf Řěșįŀįěňčỳ ǻș Ěxțěřňǻŀ Șħǿčķș Mǿųňț Bỳ JǾȘĦ ŻŲMBŘŲŇ ǻňđ ŇİČĶ ȚİMİŘǺǾȘ Ǿčț. 21, 2014 4:41 p.m. ĚȚ Țħě șpěčțěř ǿf đěfŀǻțįǿň įň Ěųřǿpě ǻňđ ǻ șŀǿẅđǿẅň įň Čħįňǻ ǻňđ ǿțħěř ěměřģįňģ mǻřķěțș ǻřě țħřěǻțěňįňģ țǿ ħǿbbŀě țħě Ų.Ș. ěčǿňǿmỳ ǻț ǻ țįmě ẅħěň țħě ẅǿřŀđ čǿųŀđ ųșě ǻ řěŀįǻbŀě ģřǿẅțħ ěňģįňě. Șțǿřmș ǻbřǿǻđ ħǻvě țħřěǻțěňěđ țǿ čǻpșįżě țħě Ų.Ș. ěčǿňǿmįč ěxpǻňșįǿň įň ěǻčħ ǿf țħě pǻșț fǿųř ỳěǻřș. Ěǻčħ țįmě, țħě Ų.Ș. ěčǿňǿmỳ ħǻș ẅįțħșțǿǿđ țħě bųmpș—įňčŀųđįňģ țħě ěųřǿżǿňě đěbț čřįșįș ǻňđ țħě Jǻpǻňěșě ňųčŀěǻř đįșǻșțěř—čǿňțįňųįňģ ǿň įțș șŀǿẅ-bųțșțěǻđỳ ģřǿẅțħ țřǻjěčțǿřỳ. Ňǿẅ, țħě ģǻțħěřįňģ ǿvěřșěǻș șħǿčķș ǻřě čǿmįňģ ǻș țħě Fěđěřǻŀ Řěșěřvě běģįňș țǿ pųŀŀ bǻčķ ǿň țħě ěǻșỳ-mǿňěỳ pǿŀįčįěș įț ħǻș ěmpŀǿỳěđ țǿ ǻįđ țħě řěčǿvěřỳ. Ẅħįŀě ǿvěřǻŀŀ jǿb ģřǿẅțħ įň țħě Ų.Ș. ħǻș běěň șțřǿňģ ǿvěř țħě pǻșț șěvěřǻŀ mǿňțħș, țħě ħǿųșįňģ mǻřķěț ħǻș běěň mįxěđ ǻňđ čǿňșųměřș ħǻvě șħǿẅň čǻųțįǿň. Ẅħįŀě țħě ǻģįňģ bųŀŀ mǻřķěț įș ǿffěřįňģ șŀįm pįčķįňģș, ěqųįțįěș ǻřě ěxpěčțěđ țǿ ẅįțħșțǻňđ ģěǿpǿŀįțįčǻŀ čǿňčěřňș. Řųșșěŀŀ İňvěșțměňțș' Șțěpħěň Ẅǿǿđ ěxpŀǻįňș ẅħỳ. Pħǿțǿ: Ģěțțỳ “Țħě Ų.Ș. fǿř ňǿẅ įș ģřǿẅįňģ ǿň įțș ǿẅň, bųț...
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...8/30/2014 McDonald's Faces 'Millennial' Challenge - WSJ Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now BUSINESS McDonald's Faces 'Millennial' Challenge Customers in Their 20s and 30s Are Defecting to Fast-Casual Restaurants Like Chipotle, Five Guys By JULIE JARGON Aug. 24, 2014 9:05 p.m. ET McDonald's is trying to enhance its credibility with young customers by marketing more on digital channels and testing mobile ordering and payment. Associated Press Behind McDonald's Corp.'s worst slump in a decade is a trend that may augur even tougher times ahead: The Golden Arches is losing its luster with younger consumers. The world's largest restaurant company by revenue earlier this month reported its sharpest monthly decline in global same-store sales since early 2003, adjusted for calendar irregularities. In the U.S., with more than 40% of McDonald's 35,000-plus global locations, sales at restaurants open at least 13 months have been flat or falling for most of the past year. The hamburger giant on Friday announced it was replacing the head of its U.S. division for the second time in less than two years. The company tapped a former executive, Mike Andres, to take the helm...
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...But a stock split should not be allowed to distort the average. The Dow Jones personnel used algebraic methods to arrive at a divisor that will produce the old answer with the new data. That divisor turned out to be 4.5238095. Dividing the new divisor into the new total of 57 gives the following: 57 4.5238095 = 12.6 In 1928, when the Dow Jones personnel changed their procedure, the divisor went from 30 (in the 30 stocks) to around 15. At that moment, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ceased being an average and became an index. Ever since 1928, every time that a stock split has occurred or a member of the Dow Jones Industrial 30 has been changed, the divisor has been altered. Just as the divisor is revised, so is the list of industrials. The list is supposed to include representative stocks. If a given firm’s stocks are not typical of the market as a whole, then that firm may be replaced. When the Manville Company went into bankruptcy procedures, it was dropped from the list. When Chrysler began running into grave danger, it was dropped. Conversely, much earlier, when IBM began to take off like a rocket, some observers thought that this surge was the reason IBM was dropped from the list. IBM later returned when it appeared to have plateaued. Although there have been those who might question the capability for accuracy of a small sample of 30 stocks in comparison to the broader indexes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is probably the best known and most often quoted...
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