The NYSE is the largest U.S. stock exchange as measured by the market value of listed firms. In 2006, the NYSE merged with the Archipelago Exchange to form a publicly held company called the NYSE Group, and then in 2007, it merged with the European exchange Euronext to form NYSE Euronext. The firm acquired the … More The New York Stock Exchange
DIRECT SEARCH MARKETS: A direct search market is the least organized market. Buyers and sellers must seek each other out directly. An example of a transaction in such a market is the sale of a used refrigerator where the seller advertises for buyers on Craigslist … More How Many Markets Do We Have Over The Globe?
What are they? When a private firm decides that it wishes to raise capital from a wide range of investors, it may decide to go public. This means that it will sell its securities to the general public and allow those investors to freely trade those shares in established securities markets. The first issue of shares to … More Public Firms
What are they? A privately held company is owned by a relatively small number of shareholders. Privately held firms have fewer obligations to release financial statements and other information to the public. This saves money and frees the firm from disclosing information that might be helpful to its competitors. How do they raise funds? When … More Private Firms
Mutual funds are professionally managed portfolio with a combination of stocks and bonds. They are a pool of money brought together from both retail and institutional investors and the money being invested and managed by certified portfolio managers into various financial instruments. … More Everything You Need to Know About Mutual Funds
Before the dawn of early 1946, only a limited number of venture funds were established, and the annual inflows of money into new venture funds were small. … More The Impact of Venture Fund Inflows on Private Equity Valuation
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Industry specialization: information spill-overs arise when several IPOs occur in the same industry over a reasonably short period of time. … More Initial public offering and market share of investment bank
The intuition of short-position in the weekend- the inability to trade over the weekend causes short sellers to close their positions on Friday ad reestablish new short positions on Mondays, causing stock prices to rise on Friday and fall on subsequent Mondays. … More 10 takeaways from the weekend effects and short-selling
The material wealth of a society is ultimately determined by the productive capacity of its economy, that is, the goods and services its members can create. This is what defines real assets. … More Real assets versus financial assets
