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The stock Market is defined by The Economist Times as a place where shares of public listed companies are traded. This is the primary market where companies float shares to the general public at an initial public offering to raise capital (The Economist Times). According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, stocks are a type of security that give stockholders a share of ownership in a company. Investors buy stocks for different reasons but primarily because of capital appreciation,…

1.0 INTRODUCTION The stock market is crucial in determining the country’s economy while stock market return plays the important roles in Malaysia’s stock market. The concerns on stock market returns tended to increase at times as it can determine the economic activity of a country. Nevertheless, the relationship between stock price and macroeconomic variables such as interest rate, exchange rate and inflation rate is also crucial in determining the performance of stock market. Besides that,…

Prior to the onset of the stock market crisis, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index reached 3234.68 points on the final trading day for 2014 following a steady increase in share market prices. This reflected a 52.87% annual increase in the previous year, (Liu, 2015). Simultaneously, China 's economy began to deteriorate. The share market reached its peak on June 12th 2015 trading at a record 5166.35 points, a 59.75% annual increase the previous year, (Liu, 2015). Financial capital was…

to a stock fraud that involves inflating the price of an owned stock through misleading positive statements, in order to sell the inexpensively purchased stock at the raised price. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s goal is to protect investors and maintain fair, efficient markets. They have exposed multiple cases of pumping and dumping, which has become a fairly common practice in finance. In July 2015, the SEC released information about three men who pumped the price of penny stocks as…

The Stock Market Challenge For this topic we were set a task to submit a report that aims to analyse and evaluate the financial performance of an organisation we each individually chose for the stock market challenge. To begin with I chose the company Glencore to invest £100,000 in. It is said that Glencore is one of the world’s largest diversified natural resource companies, producing and marketing over 90 commodities, with a network that spans more than 50 countries and around 181,000…

Initial Stock Report: Kelly Services Inc Kelly Services Inc. is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ. The company is listed under the ticker symbol KELYA. The company is a workforce solutions provider that began in 1946 with a corporate headquarters in Troy, Michigan. Kelly Services Inc. is a leader in the staffing world. They provide outsourcing and consulting services in addition to temporary, temporary-to-hire and direct hire staffing services. Kelly provides staff employment to over 7,000…

Stock Market Junkies: Addiction, “Casino Culture”, and the Dangers of Wall Street Who knows why people do it? Is it the allure of the suit and tie culture of the business world? Do they make gambling look fanciful or sexy? These questions provide important questions on why people tend to give their money to stockbrokers in the hope that they will win the lottery on Wall Street. In American society, the tendency to seek a “pot of gold” at the end of every rainbow is an important way to…

Americans found a challenge in investing in publicly listed companies. This application introduced by Robin Hood Stock Trading is one of the strategies that are being used to solve this problem, where the individuals invest without paying a commission. Before the introduction of this application, firms that existed charged a commission, which was not cost friendly to the individuals. Robin Hood Stock Trading is a profit making company that generates its revenue from interests that is re earned…

In the global economy, the growth and development of stock market of any country depends on the financial system and economic fundamentals. The well established financial system provides the necessary financial inputs for the production and services. The strong economic policies and economic indicators are support the standard of living of people and influence the growth of an economy. Before, liberalization, privatization and globalization, most of the economy as consider as closed economy, the…

In the 1930’s the stock market crashed. The people's faith in a confusing concept is why it crashed. Stock has always been under a shroud of confusion when people tried to make money off of it.Everyone became intrested in stock around the 1930’s people all thought it was an easy way to make money, but when the fundamental value of stock is so over habituated, people often forget that if the company goes bad, the stock goes bad. Stocks crash for many reasons, one main reason is when a bubble pops…