Section: Investing STOCKS & MARKETS Failure by regulators and exchanges to pinpoint what caused wild equities swings on May 6 might sap investor confidence in the stock market As if individual investors lacked reasons to mistrust the stock market, along came May 6's gut-wrenching, 9.2 percent drop in the Dow Jones industrial average. The rapid stock plunge — followed by an equally quick, partial rebound in which the Dow regained nearly half its losses — surprised retail investors. Days later
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SUMMER TRAINING REPORT ON INVESTMENT STRATEGY OF INVESTOR IN STOCK MARKET AT Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management Under the guidance of Faculty guide Company guide Miss. Sudhi Sharma Mr. Prabhpreet Singh Submitted By: Priyanka Singh PGDM III SEM (2010-2012)
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American Finance Association Why Do Companies Go Public? An Empirical Analysis Author(s): Marco Pagano, Fabio Panetta, Luigi Zingales Source: The Journal of Finance, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), pp. 27-64 Published by: Blackwell Publishing for the American Finance Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/117434 . Accessed: 24/08/2011 01:33 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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1. There are a number of ethical ramifications associated with derivatives. The first being the derivatives expose investors to counter-party risk. Say a business wants a fixed-interest loan but banks only offer variable rates. The business can then swap payments with another business that wants the variable rate given out by the bank. This in turn gives a fixed rate to the business that did not want a variable rate. However, say the second business goes bankrupt. This means that the first business
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banker by analyzing these values. It is the solicitation of tentative interest from likely institutional and individual investors by the investment banking syndicate of a new security issue before the offering has been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The system of following a book building method for offering new issues through primary markets has become more popular over the conventional method of pre-determining the issue price by merchant bankers and companies, as the same enables
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Andrey Artemenkov, The department of economic measurements, GYY artemenkov@rambler.ru Modern Portfolio theory (MPT) and Financial Economics: a theory of lesser turf?♣ “In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run the easiest.” Henry Miller “[These are colossal] disproportions that have accumulated over the last few years. This primarily concerns disproportions between the scale of
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Smythe Inn and Suites Dyamond Nelson ECO 121 September 2nd, 2011 Tim Randolph * Smythe Inns and Suites * Due to the current state of the economy we are forced to layoff 25% of our labor force. In more realistic terms of the 783 employees that work for Smythe Inn & Suites 200 will be directly affected. This comes at a very unfortunate time, however we are optimistic that this is an obstacle that we can use to learn and grow. I would like to take this
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are not frequently traded on stock exchanges. A market-maker is responsible for enhancing the demandsupply situation in securities such as stocks and futures & options (F&O ). To understand this concept better, it would be helpful to have an idea about the existing screenbased electronic trading system. In this system , orders placed by buyers and sellers are matched by a computer system (run by stock exchanges). This system is beneficial for actively-traded stocks, but not for lesser-traded ones
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raising capital ii. Disadvantages: 1. Double taxation 2. Cost of set-up and report filing c) Corporations go public and continue to grow by issuing an IPO and by borrowing from banks, issuing debt, or selling additional shares of stock. Agency problems are the differences between the goals of managers and shareholders where managers sometimes act in their self interest when they act as the agent of the corporation. Corporate governance is a set of rules that control the company’s
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The functions and the structure of the JSE Limited ("JSE") The JSE is a listed company, governed by a Board of Directors. Its activities as an exchange are regulated by an Act of Parliament, namely the Securities Services Act, 30 of 2004. The JSE is licensed as anexchange in terms of these Act, but, in common with international practice, a philosophy of self-regulation bythe markets is practiced and applies to the JSE. The JSE members and their clients (investors), must comply with trading
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