Investors Exchange or IEX) and Bill O’Brien (president of BATS Global Markets, Inc.), to talk about high frequency trading (HFT). The ensuing debate was explosive. O’Brien opened the interview with the following charge, “Michael and Brad, shame on both of you for falsely accusing literally thousands of people, and possibly scaring millions of investors, in an effort to promote a business model.” Katsuyama responded, “I believe the markets are rigged. And I also think that you’re a part of the rigging
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Chapter 6: Understanding Financial Markets and Institutions Financial Markets * Manage flow of funds * Two major market dimensions: _________ versus _____________ markets ________ versus __________ markets * Primary Markets * Used by corporations and governments * Used to issue _______ financial instruments * Stocks * Bonds * Primary Market Transfer of Funds * Demanders of funds __________________ * Initial suppliers
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The Outcome Assuming the Merger is Completed Per Share Market Value of BT at Merger Completion 60.00 50.50 45.00 Gain / (Loss) on Long Position: Value of each BT share received 60.00 50.50 45.00 x Number of BT shares received 1.30 1.30 1.30 Value of consideration received 78.00 65.65 58.50 - Basis in MCI stock (62.00) (62.00) (62.00) Gain / (Loss) on Long Position 16.00 3.65 (3.50) Gain / (Loss) on Short Position:
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Exchange… 3. Buy/ Sell is conducted through the exchange; no direct contact between seller & buyer; Exchanges acting as a counterparty to all trades. What’s an OTC? 1. No centralized place where trades are made. 2. Market is made up of all participants in the market trading among themselves. 3. Example FOREX/FX. Why Stock Exchange and not OTC? 1. Necessarily OTC is not the quickest means to trade. You may have to look for a suitable counterparty on your own. That may take time!
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INDIAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM The economic development of a nation is reflected by the progress of the various economic units, broadly classified into corporate sector, government and household sector. A financial system or financial sector functions as an intermediary and facilitates the flow of funds from the areas of surplus to the deficit. It is a composition of various institutions, markets, regulations and laws, practices, money manager analyst, transactions and claims and liabilities. function
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• Importance of Stock Markets and Connection to the Countries’ Economies “Financial markets perform the essential economic function of channeling funds from households, firms, and governments that have saved d surplus funds” (Mishkin, 2009, p.25).The primary economic functions of financial markets are; price discovery, liquidity, and reduced transactional costs (Drake & Fabozzi, 2010). Stock markets are vital for business as they directly impact on decision making in that price discovery of shares
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On Accounting Flows and Systematic Risk Abstract The body of work that relates accounting numbers to market measures of systematic equity risk was largely undertaken in the 1970s and early 1980s. More recent proposals on changes in accounting disclosure of risk mean that a rigorous theoretical model of the relationship between accounting measures and market measures of risk is timely. In this paper such a model is developed. In addition, the assumptions required to develop the
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Capital Market Of Bangladesh In: Business and Management Capital Market Of Bangladesh UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCES Department of School of Business Term Paper On Topic: Bond Market In Bangladesh . Course Code :FIN-361. Course Title :Corporate Finance . Submitted To : MD.Nazmul Hasan. Faculty, School of Business, University of Information Technology & Sciences Submitted By : NAME ID Nazibur Rahman : 08410105 Abdullah- al Zihad : 08510061 Qazi Ismat Ahmed Rushe’d
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suggest the securities market inefficiency. First we discuss how we define the securities market efficiency. According to the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH), the financial markets are “informationally efficient”. That is, no one can consistently achieve returns in excess of average market returns by using any information that market already knows. That means when the investment is made, the information is publicly available. One important characteristic of the efficient market is we assume the prices
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especially in the context of financial management. 2. Describe and critically reflect upon the key issues involved in the effective management of organizations finances. 3. Apply theoretical concepts and frameworks to a range of practical situations in order to propose solutions to business problems. This assignment consists of THREE (3) parts. The purpose of this assignment is to help the students to understand how an organization demonstrates key areas of financial management in practice.
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