what is the stock exchange or what does it mean? very urgent?
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Businesses issue stock to raise capital.\n\nAdvantages of issuing stock:\n\nA Company can raise more capital than it could borrow. \nA Company does not have to make periodic interest payments to creditors. \nA Company does not have to make principal payments.
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Contact the London Stock Exchange.
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A stock market is how much a companies shares are worth at the time. Low means that they are not selling for a lot, high means that one shares costs more than it did previously. \n\nThese fluctuations are based on events going on in the company and how much people are willing to support them. Often stocks drop when people either see their stocks are worth more and want the money at the time or the company is having problems.\n\nHigh often occurs when a new product has been developed and people want in on the profits that company is gaining.
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BSE NSE are stock exchanges in which people trade on shares.\n\nDemat is a special account each person needs to have before they can trade (buy or sell stocks).\n\nFor more details please visit the link below
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it stands for Standard and Poors 500.. it's a rating of the top five hundred coorpoarations for investors, it's like a stock market thing. kinda like the NASDAQ or dow jones
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In financial markets, stock is the capital raised by a corporation through the issuance and distribution of shares.\n\nA person or organization which holds share of stocks is called a shareholder. The aggregate value of a corporation's issued shares is its market capitalization\n\nIn finance a share is a unit of account for various financial instruments including stocks, mutual funds, limited partnerships, and REIT's. In British English, the usage of the word share alone to refer solely to stocks is so common that it almost replaces the word stock itself.\n\nA share is one of a finite number of equal portions in the capital of a company, entitling the owner to a proportion of distributed, non-reinvested profits known as dividends and to a portion of the value of the company in case of liquidation. Shares can be voting or non-voting, meaning they either do or do not carry the right to vote on the board of directors and corporate policy. Whether this right exists often affects the value of the share.
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Don't know which country you are talking about, but it is possible it means "Proprietary Company", "Private Company" or "Public Company".\n\nIn most countries, "private", "closed", "proprietary" or some other similar title implies a smaller company with few shareholders that therefore has fewer compliance regulations placed on it. It can not list on an exchange.\n\nIn most countries, "public" companies usually have many shareholders, therefore have more compliance regulations placed on it and can list on an exchange after complying with all the listing rules.
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You can get a general idea of the exchange from google.\nTry typeing "87 euros in dollars" in a google search bar.
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WOW! I hope you are not into heavy investing or your company has not been removed from NASDAQ or AMEX or NYSE. It means that the Company is doing very badly and these exchanges don't think their stock is worthy of trading on their exchanges. Many times their stock might get listed for trading over the Bulletin Board. If even that that does not happen it'll have to trade over the counter if some broker thinks it is worth his while to make a market in the stock of this company. If an investor is wise he would have liquidated his position of the stock of this company long before this happens.\n\nOfcourse if you are a speculator with deep pocets you might start accumulating the stock of a company not before this happens but after it happens with the hope that some rich person like Ican will get greedy and starts buying millions of shares of the stock of this Company with a view to turning it around so that it will go up.\n\nBut I'd not want you to fiddle around with the stocks of these companies if you are not a speculative investors with deep pockets just because you received an email touting the virtues of some company. It is usually the work of some pump and dump scheme which will be a cause for your financial burn down. You don't want it to happen. Financial burn down is not pretty.\n\nBetter be satisfied by saving a penny or two by looking at the prices of several merchants like the affiliates of NEW ERA WISP. A penny saved is a penny made.
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Its going to be very difficult these days.\nThe best way around the system is to open a trading account with an online stock broker, its just like a bank a/c, you can deposit/transfer and they even give you a ATM/debit card, and don't have to buy any stock or trade, nor go through the hassles of opening a bank a/c due to Patriot Act.\ncheck out www.etrade.com or similar co.\nGood Luck
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you need to read the stock option plan.  they almost all have a clause on what happens in the event of a take over.
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Security just means investment. Any security that is exchange traded like the way stock is traded is a marketable security.\n\nOther marketable securities include but not limited to, are:\n\nCurreny\nBonds\nOptions\nFutures\nCommodities\n\nmarketable securities have guaranteed liquidity, and the value is always known, because it is exchange traded.\n\nA nonmarketable security might be an investment in a limited partnership, or stock in a non public company. If you wanted to sell you must look yourself for a buyer, which tends to be a very hard process and in most cases makes quick liquidity impossible.
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There's sooooo much poor information here.\n\nWhen you invest in most stocks the Stock Exchange manages things so you are guaranteed to find a buyer if you're selling and guaranteed to find a seller if you're buying.  The large banks are granted favourable trading terms in return for being in the market and quoting a price to take those 200 MSFT shares off your hands.  They can drop the price they're prepared to pay when more people are selling than buying but they commit to being in the market and quoting a price most of the time.\n\nPink Sheets and Over The Counter are basically the same thing (the name Pink Sheets comes from the fact that closing prices were printed and distributed at the end of the trading day on pink paper).  It is a seperate market for stocks not quoted on the main market.  Basically, when you want to buy or sell a stock there is no guarantee there will be anyone prepared to trade with you.  The more popular stocks normally trade reasonably well but there are thousands of stocks on the OTC market that trade no volume for weeks at a time.  Most of the shareholders will be held privately and if no one is prepared to sell you're not going to be able to buy.  If you are able to find a seller you run the risk of paying a large spread (the difference between the buy and sell price).  On the main market the buy or sell price for MSFT will be the same.  On the OTC market the buy price for a stock might be $10 higher than the sell price.\n\nThe biggest danger is that something happens to the stock while you're holding it and you find yourself locked in.  If I buy MSFT I can sell the stock seconds after bad news is announced by going to my PC and logging onto my brokerage account.  If I hold OTC stock I can only sell my stock if there's someone out there prepared to buy.\n\nOTC stocks are not neceessarily up and coming, as with penny stocks choose very carefully.  Stocks quote on the OTC market for a number of reasons, and there are definately some bargains out there.  But it is much much more risky than the main market.
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I think you need to do some basic research on stocks before you jump in.  You can easily lose your 4k if you're not careful.  The things you listed are indexes and markets.  The NYSE is a stock exchange.  It is a private company who has a stock (NYX).  The S&P 500 is an index comprising the 500 largest companies in America.  The NASDAQ is a market and also an index.  The NASDAQ contains "mostly" newer companies and tech companies.\n\nDo your research.
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Nobody knows which direction the market will move in the short term.  Indicators that have any value will immediately move the market, since market prices are based on expectations of the future.
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A stock option is an offer or promise by a company to another party to sell to the other party company stock at a price at or below street value. If the offer is made at a price that is below street value, the company can expect to loose money on the transaction whenever the sale occurs. This for accounting purposes is recorded as a loss to the company, and losses reduce the income of the company - and the loss/reduced income is recorded before the corporate taxes are paid, so the loss is pre-tax.\n\nYou accountants out there feel free to blow me out of the water, if I'm not right, but this is the way my accountant buddy explained it to me.
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Exchanges and Brokers\nThere are three big stock exchanges in the United States: \n•NYSE - New York Stock Exchange \n•AMEX - American Stock Exchange \n•NASDAQ - National Association of Securities Dealers \nA company "lists" its stock on an exchange. For example, the NYSE has about 3,000 companies listed. According to the NYSE \nAt the end of November, 1998, there were 3,104 companies with stock listed on the NYSE. These companies had over 236 billion shares worth a total of $10.1 trillion available for trading on the Exchange, giving the NYSE the world's largest market capitalization (in global market-value terms, the total global value of the NYSE-listed companies exceeded $12.8 trillion). \nAnyone who wants to buy or sell stock in any of these 3,000 or so companies goes to the New York Stock Exchange to do it. \nOf course, no one wants to fly to New York to buy or sell their shares. A person therefore calls a stock broker in a firm that is authorized to trade at the exchange. There are dozens of such brokerage houses, including such familiar names as Merrill LynchCharles Schwab and Morgan Stanley When you call up a broker at one of these companies, he or she relays your trade to the floor of the appropriate exchange, and a representative of the company (or, more commonly, a computer representing the company) makes the trade on your behalf. You pay the broker a commission (generally $10 to $100 per trade, depending on the broker) to provide this service to you. \nStocks that are not listed on an exchange are sold Over The Counter (OTC). OTC stocks are generally in smaller, riskier companies. Usually, an OTC stock is stock in a company that does not meet the requirements of an exchange. \n\nStocks in publicly traded companies are bought and sold at a stock market (also known as a stock exchange). The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is an example of such a market. In your neighborhood, you have a "supermarket" that sells food >. The reason you go the supermarket is because you can go to one place and buy all of the different types of food that you need in one stop -- it's a lot more convenient than driving around to the butcher, the dairy farmer, the baker, etc. The NYSE is a supermarket for stocks. The NYSE can be thought of as a big room where everyone who wants to buy and sell shares of stocks can go to do their buying and selling. \nThe exchange makes buying and selling easy. You don't have to actually travel to New York to visit the New York Stock Exchange -- you can call a stock broker who does business with the NYSE, and he or she will go to the NYSE on your behalf to buy or sell your stock. If the exchange did not exist, buying or selling stock would be a lot harder. You would have to place a classified ad in the newspaper, wait for a call and haggle on a price whenever you wanted to sell stock. With an exchange in place, you can buy and sell shares instantly. \nThe stock exchange has an interesting side effect. Because all the buying and selling is concentrated in one place, it allows the price of a stock to be known every second of the day. Therefore, investors can watch as a stock's price fluctuates based on news from the company, media reports, national economic news and lots of other factors. Buyers and sellers take all of these factors into account. So, for example, when the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) shut down the company ValuJet for a month in June 1996, the value of the stock plummeted. Investors could not be sure that the airline represented a going concern and began selling, driving the price down. The asset value of the company acted as a floor on the share price. \nThe price of a stock also reflects the dividend that the stock pays, the projected earnings of the company in the future, the price of tea in China (especially Lipton stock) and so on.\nStock Prices: Income vs. Growth\nThe price of an income stock tends to stay fairly flat. That is, from year