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110-541: A company stock's current earnings. Intellectual capital contributes to a stock's return growth. The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is a hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information at the current time. The 'hard' efficient-market hypothesis does not explain the cause of events such as the crash in 1987 , when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 22.6 percent—the largest-ever one-day fall in
165-431: A country as "socialist" or not. At that time, I wasn't sure that any definite criterion existed to make that sort of clear-cut judgment. And so I was pleasantly surprised at the clarity and decisiveness of Mises's answer. "A stock market," he answered promptly. "A stock market is crucial to the existence of capitalism and private property . For it means that there is a functioning market in the exchange of private titles to
220-399: A dealer. Some large companies will have their stock listed on more than one exchange in different countries, so as to attract international investors. Stock exchanges may also cover other types of securities, such as fixed-interest securities (bonds) or (less frequently) derivatives, which are more likely to be traded OTC. Trade in stock markets means the transfer (in exchange for money) of
275-564: A function of fixed costs associated with investing. Her research concludes that a fixed cost of $ 200 per year is sufficient to explain why nearly half of all U.S. households do not participate in the market. Participation rates have been shown to strongly correlate with education levels, promoting the hypothesis that information and transaction costs of market participation are better absorbed by more educated households. Behavioral economists Harrison Hong, Jeffrey Kubik and Jeremy Stein suggest that sociability and participation rates of communities have
330-510: A mutual fund or an exchange traded fund. Direct investment involves direct ownership of shares. Direct ownership of stock by individuals rose slightly from 17.8% in 1992 to 17.9% in 2007, with the median value of these holdings rising from $ 14,778 to $ 17,000. Indirect participation in the form of retirement accounts rose from 39.3% in 1992 to 52.6% in 2007, with the median value of these accounts more than doubling from $ 22,000 to $ 45,000 in that time. Rydqvist, Spizman, and Strebulaev attribute
385-454: A pattern in what is, in fact, just noise , e.g. seeing familiar shapes in clouds or ink blots. In the present context, this means that a succession of good news items about a company may lead investors to overreact positively, driving the price up. A period of good returns also boosts the investors' self-confidence, reducing their (psychological) risk threshold. Another phenomenon—also from psychology—that works against an objective assessment
440-446: A public stock exchange as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies that are sold to investors through equity crowdfunding platforms. Investments are usually made with an investment strategy in mind. The total market capitalization of all publicly traded stocks worldwide rose from US$ 2.5 trillion in 1980 to US$ 111 trillion by the end of 2023. As of 2016 , there are 60 stock exchanges in
495-498: A statistically significant impact on an individual's decision to participate in the market. Their research indicates that social individuals living in states with higher than average participation rates are 5% more likely to participate than individuals that do not share those characteristics. This phenomenon also explained in cost terms. Knowledge of market functioning diffuses through communities and consequently lowers transaction costs associated with investing. In 12th-century France,
550-411: A stock exchange trader . Some exchanges are physical locations where transactions are carried out on a trading floor, by a method known as open outcry . This method is used in some stock exchanges and commodities exchanges , and involves traders shouting bid and offer prices. The other type of stock exchange has a network of computers where trades are made electronically. An example of such an exchange
605-467: A stock or security from a seller to a buyer. This requires these two parties to agree on a price. Equities (stocks or shares) confer an ownership interest in a particular company. Participants in the stock market range from small individual stock investors to larger investors, who can be based anywhere in the world, and may include banks , insurance companies, pension funds and hedge funds . Their buy or sell orders may be executed on their behalf by
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#1732856044832660-486: A study of the fifty largest one-day share price movements in the United States in the post-war period seems to confirm this. A 'soft' EMH has emerged which does not require that prices remain at or near equilibrium, but only that market participants cannot systematically profit from any momentary ' market anomaly '. Moreover, while EMH predicts that all price movement (in the absence of change in fundamental information)
715-402: Is group thinking . As social animals, it is not easy to stick to an opinion that differs markedly from that of a majority of the group. An example with which one may be familiar is the reluctance to enter a restaurant that is empty; people generally prefer to have their opinion validated by those of others in the group. In one paper the authors draw an analogy with gambling . In normal times
770-429: Is an exchange (or bourse) where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell shares (equity stock ), bonds , and other securities . Many large companies have their stocks listed on a stock exchange. This makes the stock more liquid and thus more attractive to many investors. The exchange may also act as a guarantor of settlement. These and other stocks may also be traded " over the counter " (OTC), that is, through
825-673: Is an alternative public equity exchange for small and medium-sized companies in South Africa operated in parallel with and wholly owned by the JSE Securities Exchange . As of July 2008 the shares of just over 80 companies listed on AltX had a combined value of over R30-billion. The exchange launched in October 2003 as a nursery for the JSE main board, replacing the failed venture capital and development capital boards established as sub-sets of
880-579: Is bank-based or market-based. Events such as the 2007–2008 financial crisis have prompted a heightened degree of scrutiny of the impact of the structure of stock markets (called market microstructure ), in particular to the stability of the financial system and the transmission of systemic risk . A transformation is the move to electronic trading to replace human trading of listed securities . Changes in stock prices are mostly caused by external factors such as socioeconomic conditions, inflation, exchange rates. Intellectual capital does not affect
935-464: Is random (i.e. non-trending) , many studies have shown a marked tendency for the stock market to trend over time periods of weeks or longer. Various explanations for such large and apparently non-random price movements have been promulgated. For instance, some research has shown that changes in estimated risk, and the use of certain strategies, such as stop-loss limits and value at risk limits, theoretically could cause financial markets to overreact. But
990-478: Is similar to the New York Stock Exchange. One or more NASDAQ market makers will always provide a bid and ask the price at which they will always purchase or sell 'their' stock. The Paris Bourse , now part of Euronext , is an order-driven, electronic stock exchange. It was automated in the late 1980s. Prior to the 1980s, it consisted of an open outcry exchange. Stockbrokers met on the trading floor of
1045-511: Is the NASDAQ . A potential buyer bids a specific price for a stock, and a potential seller asks a specific price for the same stock. Buying or selling at the Market means you will accept any ask price or bid price for the stock. When the bid and ask prices match, a sale takes place, on a first-come, first-served basis if there are multiple bidders at a given price. The purpose of a stock exchange
1100-439: Is the parent company of the financial technology product, AltX . The company was founded in 2012 by Sam Hocking. Company is no longer trading as of 2023. References [ edit ] ^ "Imatchative targets institutional investors with online AltX hedge fund search solution" . Hedgeweek . 2014-07-09 . Retrieved 2018-06-14 . External links [ edit ] "IMatchative website" . Archived from
1155-405: Is to facilitate the exchange of securities between buyers and sellers, thus providing a marketplace . The exchanges provide real-time trading information on the listed securities, facilitating price discovery . The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is a physical exchange, with a hybrid market for placing orders electronically from any location as well as on the trading floor . Orders executed on
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#17328560448321210-545: The Netherlands . Even in the days before perestroika , socialism was never a monolith. Within the Communist countries , the spectrum of socialism ranged from the quasi-market , quasi- syndicalist system of Yugoslavia to the centralized totalitarianism of neighboring Albania . One time I asked Professor von Mises , the great expert on the economics of socialism, at what point on this spectrum of statism would he designate
1265-409: The counterparty could default on the transaction. The smooth functioning of all these activities facilitates economic growth in that lower costs and enterprise risks promote the production of goods and services as well as possibly employment. In this way the financial system is assumed to contribute to increased prosperity, although some controversy exists as to whether the optimal financial system
1320-425: The income distribution have lessened their participation rate both directly and indirectly from 53.2% in 2007 to 48.8% in 2013, while over the same period households in the top decile of the income distribution slightly increased participation 91.7% to 92.1%. The mean value of direct and indirect holdings at the bottom half of the income distribution moved slightly downward from $ 53,800 in 2007 to $ 53,600 in 2013. In
1375-476: The means of production . There can be no genuine private ownership of capital without a stock market: there can be no true socialism if such a market is allowed to exist." The stock market is one of the most important ways for companies to raise money, along with debt markets which are generally more imposing but do not trade publicly. This allows businesses to be publicly traded, and raise additional financial capital for expansion by selling shares of ownership of
1430-553: The "Brugse Beurse", institutionalizing what had been, until then, an informal meeting. The idea quickly spread around Flanders and neighboring countries and "Beurzen" soon opened in Ghent and Rotterdam . International traders, and specially the Italian bankers, present in Bruges since the early 13th-century, took back the word in their countries to define the place for stock market exchange: first
1485-464: The DMM may use their own resources (money or stock) to close the difference. Once a trade has been made, the details are reported on the "tape" and sent back to the brokerage firm, which then notifies the investor who placed the order. Computers play an important role, especially for program trading . The NASDAQ is an electronic exchange, where all of the trading is done over a computer network . The process
1540-674: The Italians (Borsa), but soon also the French (Bourse), the Germans (börse), Russians (birža), Czechs (burza), Swedes (börs), Danes and Norwegians (børs). In most languages, the word coincides with that for money bag, dating back to the Latin bursa, from which obviously also derives the name of the Van der Beurse family. In the middle of the 13th century , Venetian bankers began to trade in government securities. In 1351
1595-557: The Low Countries followed in the 16th century. Around this time, a joint stock company —one whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders—emerged and became important for the colonization of what Europeans called the " New World ". There are now stock markets in virtually every developed and most developing economies, with the world's largest markets being in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, India , China, Canada , Germany ( Frankfurt Stock Exchange ), France, South Korea and
1650-555: The Palais Brongniart. In 1986, the CATS trading system was introduced, and the order matching system was fully automated. People trading stock will prefer to trade on the most popular exchange since this gives the largest number of potential counter parties (buyers for a seller, sellers for a buyer) and probably the best price. However, there have always been alternatives such as brokers trying to bring parties together to trade outside
1705-507: The United States. This event demonstrated that share prices can fall dramatically even though no generally agreed upon definite cause has been found: a thorough search failed to detect any 'reasonable' development that might have accounted for the crash. (Such events are predicted to occur strictly by randomness , although very rarely.) It seems also to be true more generally that many price movements (beyond those which are predicted to occur 'randomly') are not occasioned by new information;
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1760-571: The Venetian government outlawed spreading rumors intended to lower the price of government funds. Bankers in Pisa , Verona , Genoa and Florence also began trading in government securities during the 14th century. This was only possible because these were independent city-states not ruled by a duke but a council of influential citizens. Italian companies were also the first to issue shares. Companies in England and
1815-485: The best explanation seems to be that the distribution of stock market prices is non-Gaussian (in which case EMH, in any of its current forms, would not be strictly applicable). Other research has shown that psychological factors may result in exaggerated (statistically anomalous) stock price movements (contrary to EMH which assumes such behaviors 'cancel out'). Psychological research has demonstrated that people are predisposed to 'seeing' patterns, and often will perceive
1870-484: The company in a public market. The liquidity that an exchange affords the investors enables their holders to quickly and easily sell securities. This is an attractive feature of investing in stocks, compared to other less liquid investments such as property and other immoveable assets. History has shown that the price of stocks and other assets is an important part of the dynamics of economic activity, and can influence or be an indicator of social mood. An economy where
1925-408: The control and behavior of the stock market and, in general, on the smooth operation of financial system functions. Financial stability is the raison d'être of central banks. Exchanges also act as the clearinghouse for each transaction, meaning that they collect and deliver the shares, and guarantee payment to the seller of a security. This eliminates the risk to an individual buyer or seller that
1980-445: The courtiers de change were concerned with managing and regulating the debts of agricultural communities on behalf of the banks. Because these men also traded with debts, they could be called the first brokers . The Italian historian Lodovico Guicciardini described how, in late 13th-century Bruges , commodity traders gathered outdoors at a market square containing an inn owned by a family called Van der Beurze , and in 1409 they became
2035-406: The differential growth in direct and indirect holdings to differences in the way each are taxed in the United States. Investments in pension funds and 401ks, the two most common vehicles of indirect participation, are taxed only when funds are withdrawn from the accounts. Conversely, the money used to directly purchase stock is subject to taxation as are any dividends or capital gains they generate for
2090-1218: The economy through transferring available funds from units that have excess funds (savings) to those who are suffering from funds deficit (borrowings) (Padhi and Naik, 2012). In other words, capital markets facilitate funds movement between the above-mentioned units. This process leads to the enhancement of available financial resources which in turn affects the economic growth positively. Economic and financial theories argue that stock prices are affected by macroeconomic trends. Macroeconomic trends include such as changes in GDP, unemployment rates, national income, price indices, output, consumption, unemployment, inflation, saving, investment, energy, international trade, immigration, productivity, aging populations, innovations, international finance. increasing corporate profit, increasing profit margins, higher concentration of business, lower company income, less vigorous activity, less progress, lower investment rates, lower productivity growth, less employee share of corporate revenues, decreasing Worker to Beneficiary ratio (year 1960 5:1, year 2009 3:1, year 2030 2.2:1), increasing female to male ratio college graduates. Sometimes,
2145-850: The exchange. Some third markets that were popular are Instinet , and later Island and Archipelago (the latter two have since been acquired by Nasdaq and NYSE, respectively). One advantage is that this avoids the commissions of the exchange. However, it also has problems such as adverse selection . Financial regulators have probed dark pools . Market participants include individual retail investors, institutional investors (e.g., pension funds , insurance companies , mutual funds , index funds , exchange-traded funds , hedge funds , investor groups, banks and various other financial institutions ), and also publicly traded corporations trading in their own shares. Robo-advisors , which automate investment for individuals are also major participants. Indirect investment involves owning shares indirectly, such as via
2200-463: The form of retirement accounts of 89.6%. The median value of directly owned stock in the bottom quintile of income is $ 4,000 and is $ 78,600 in the top decile of income as of 2007. The median value of indirectly held stock in the form of retirement accounts for the same two groups in the same year is $ 6,300 and $ 214,800 respectively. Since the Great Recession of 2008 households in the bottom half of
2255-436: The holder. In this way, the current tax code incentivizes individuals to invest indirectly. Rates of participation and the value of holdings differ significantly across strata of income. In the bottom quintile of income, 5.5% of households directly own stock and 10.7% hold stocks indirectly in the form of retirement accounts. The top decile of income has a direct participation rate of 47.5% and an indirect participation rate in
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2310-491: The loss of billions of dollars and wealth destruction on a massive scale. An increasing number of people are involved in the stock market, especially since the social security and retirement plans are being increasingly privatized and linked to stocks and bonds and other elements of the market. There have been a number of famous stock market crashes like the Wall Street Crash of 1929 , the stock market crash of 1973–4 ,
2365-563: The main board in the 1980s. It was intended to encourage entrepreneurship, especially among South Africa's emerging black middle class. Beige Holdings Limited and Insurance Outsourcing Managers' Holding Limited were the first companies to list, in January 2004. Stock market A stock market , equity market , or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on
2420-462: The market behaves like a game of roulette ; the probabilities are known and largely independent of the investment decisions of the different players. In times of market stress, however, the game becomes more like poker (herding behavior takes over). The players now must give heavy weight to the psychology of other investors and how they are likely to react psychologically. Stock markets play an essential role in growing industries that ultimately affect
2475-476: The market seems to react irrationally to economic or financial news, even if that news is likely to have no real effect on the fundamental value of securities itself. However, this market behaviour may be more apparent than real, since often such news was anticipated, and a counter reaction may occur if the news is better (or worse) than expected. Therefore, the stock market may be swayed in either direction by press releases, rumors, euphoria and mass panic . Over
2530-465: The national averages with 25.6% participating directly and 53.4% participating indirectly through a retirement account. 14.7% of households headed by men participated in the market directly and 33.4% owned stock through a retirement account. 12.6% of female-headed households directly owned stock and 28.7% owned stock indirectly. In a 2003 paper by Vissing-Jørgensen attempts to explain disproportionate rates of participation along wealth and income groups as
2585-469: The national rate of direct participation was 19.6%, for white households the participation rate was 24.5%, for black households it was 6.4% and for Hispanic households it was 4.3%. Indirect participation in the form of 401k ownership shows a similar pattern with a national participation rate of 42.1%, a rate of 46.4% for white households, 31.7% for black households, and 25.8% for Hispanic households. Households headed by married couples participated at rates above
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2750-556: The short-term, stocks and other securities can be battered or bought by any number of fast market-changing events, making the stock market behavior difficult to predict. Emotions can drive prices up and down, people are generally not as rational as they think, and the reasons for buying and selling are generally accepted. Behaviorists argue that investors often behave irrationally when making investment decisions thereby incorrectly pricing securities, which causes market inefficiencies, which, in turn, are opportunities to make money. However,
2805-420: The stock market is on the rise is considered to be an up-and-coming economy. The stock market is often considered the primary indicator of a country's economic strength and development. Rising share prices, for instance, tend to be associated with increased business investment and vice versa. Share prices also affect the wealth of households and their consumption. Therefore, central banks tend to keep an eye on
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#17328560448322860-422: The top decile, mean value of all holdings fell from $ 982,000 to $ 969,300 in the same time. The mean value of all stock holdings across the entire income distribution is valued at $ 269,900 as of 2013. The racial composition of stock market ownership shows households headed by whites are nearly four and six times as likely to directly own stocks than households headed by blacks and Hispanics respectively. As of 2011
2915-492: The trading floor enter by way of exchange members and flow down to a floor broker , who submits the order electronically to the floor trading post for the Designated market maker ("DMM") for that stock to trade the order. The DMM's job is to maintain a two-sided market, making orders to buy and sell the security when there are no other buyers or sellers. If a bid–ask spread exists, no trade immediately takes place – in this case,
2970-527: The whole notion of EMH is that these non-rational reactions to information cancel out, leaving the prices of stocks rationally determined. A stock market crash is often defined as a sharp dip in share prices of stocks listed on the stock exchanges. In parallel with various economic factors, a reason for stock market crashes is also due to panic and investing public's loss of confidence. Often, stock market crashes end speculative economic bubbles . There have been famous stock market crashes that have ended in
3025-598: The world. Of these, there are 16 exchanges with a market capitalization of $ 1 trillion or more, and they account for 87% of global market capitalization. Apart from the Australian Securities Exchange , these 16 exchanges are all in North America , Europe , or Asia . By country, the largest stock markets as of January 2022 are in the United States of America (about 59.9%), followed by Japan (about 6.2%) and United Kingdom (about 3.9%). A stock exchange
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