what is stock exchange?
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A stock exchange is an organization of which the members are stock brokers. A stock exchange provides facilities for the trading of securities and other financial instruments. Usually facilities are also provided for the issue and redemption of securities as well as other capital events including the payment of income and dividends.\n\nThe securities usually traded on a stock exchange include the shares issued by companies, unit trusts and other pooled investment products as well as corporate bonds and government bonds.\n\nUsually there is a central location at least for recordkeeping, but trade is less and less linked to such a physical place, as modern markets are electronic networks, which gives them advantages of speed and cost of transactions. Trade on an exchange is by members only; a stock broker is said to "have a seat" on the exchange.\n\nA stock exchange is often the most important component of a stock market. There is usually no compulsion to issue stock via the stock exchange itself and nor must stock be subsequently traded on the exchange: Such trading is said to be "off exchange".\n\nThe initial offering of stock to investors is by definition the primary market and subsequent trading is the secondary market.\n\nIncreasingly all stock exchanges are part of the global securities market.\n\nSupply and demand in stock markets is driven by various factors which, as in all free markets, affect the price of stocks (see stock valuation).\n\nIn francophonic European countries stock exchanges are called bourses.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_exchange\n\nwikipedia is really good for information!\nhope this helps!
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Every exchange has a different process. The below link is the listing process for the NYSE (NY stock exchange).  For more info, type "stock listing process" into google for the other exchanges.
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Are you refering to Nairobi Stock Exchange? Nigerian SE? Nagoya SE?
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Companies offer stocks and people buy them, its basically partial ownership of the company. The company does good you make money if the company loses money so do you. To answer your question its a market place where stocks and bonds are traded
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It's also a company in that it has revenues and costs.  It gets money from the people that have seats on the exchange among other things.\n\nIf the NYSE corporation buys the one in Europe, it will have control of it and be able to dictate policy if it wants.  It will also get the profits that come out of the other stock exchange from the various fees that are charged for trading on the exchange.
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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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NASDAQ is originally known as National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations it  is an American electronic stock exchange. It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), who divested it in a series of sales in 2000 and 2001. It is owned and operated by The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) which was listed on its own stock exchange in 2002. NASDAQ is the largest electronic screen-based equity securities market in the United States. With approximately 3,300 companies, it lists more companies and, on average, trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market. The current chief executive is Robert Greifeld.
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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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Companies issue and sell their stock to raise money. So stocks give you ownership of the company which issued stocks. Stock market is where stocks are being traded: sold and bought; example New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, etc. That's a 30-second overview. Go to website www.investopedia.com.. Very good website to get education. Also, there is a stock trader simulator, give it a try.
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you would have to look at at history\n\nstock is something that you own a share of a company\n\nso exchanging stock for cash\n\nOther countries had such "exchanges" for many years. Belgium established the world's first in 1531. Amsterdam soon followed, with brokers conducting their activity on a street called Warmoesstraat. In 1602, under the Amstel bridge, shares of the East India Company were bought and sold. Money was raised here to finance the Pilgrim's trip to America.\n\nhttp://www.stocks-investing.com/stock-market-history.html
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Stock stands for a companys share capital. It is also commonly used for Securities, e.g. Shares and Bonds. Well, transaction is the process of carrying out an order to buy or sell a security. This agreement between two parties requires the delivery of an asset or security by the seller and the acceptance and payment by the buyer. Stock transaction by an officer or director of the company whose stock is being traded, or by any individual or entity holding 10 percent or more of any class of the company's shares.
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the DOW is a weighted index of a basket of tocks of thirty supposedly large, diversified companies.  It's supposed to show the general trend in the market based on the confidence of investors.  Currently, if a Dow stock moves $1 in value, this results in about a 7.5 point move in the Dow.
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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
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A "stock option" is a set price for a group of stocks in a company.  Usually given to employees, sometimes to investors directly realted to a company.  With a stock option, you can get say a group of 100 stocks at an option to purchase for $5 each.  The option matures at some point in time where you can actually make this purchase at said price.  But, there is a possibility that the market price for the stock could be $100 at that time.  You just made $95 per stock on the purchase.  A real incentive for employees to work harder to make their company worth more in the market place.
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You would need to consult an online broker, like Ameritrade, or see if there are any stockbrokers with offices in your area. They need to have a seat (or be affiliated with someone who does) on the NYSE to trade in stocks on that exchange. NASDAQ operates differently and there are a lot of other stock exchanges as well.
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A stock exchange, where stocks are bought and sold, is considered a market. Equities are shares (or stocks) in a company. Sometimes the company offers shares of itself called the initial public offering, but mostly you are buying and selling shares from other people, not companies. This is why a market is necessary so a buy and sell price for equities (stocks) can be determined.\n\nStocks are offered by sellers at an ASK price. Stocks are requested by buyers at a BID price.\nThis is how a deal for the stocks is negoiated, real time.