What percentage of the world stock market (equity) represents U.S. companies?
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There are indexes representing big companies (top 500, etc) but nothing representing all stock market equity in the world.  As it happens the US is approx 25% of world capitalisation.
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0.25% of the Share Transation Value.\n\nCA. Deepak Bholusaria
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It deals with the capital structure of the company.  As the company has more debt and less equity, it's more highly levered and thus more risky, leading to a higher P/E.  With more stock than equity, there's less risk, which would probably trade at a lower P/E.
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Amazon posted a huge gain one quarter and their stocks took a dive.\n\nMutual funds, hedge funds and inside holders (like the CEO and the board) hold the majority of any stock.  Mutual and hedge funds have their own formulas on what they expect from a company.  That projection is built into the price (aka they buy or sell till the majority feel that it's the price it should be).  Those projections are also called estimates, so when the news talks about beating, matching or falling short of estimates, you know what the news means.\n\nVolume is the other factor.  On low volume days or low volume stocks, there are fewer people deciding if a stock goes up or down.  You shouldn't be concerned with a stock that goes up on high volume and down on low volumes.  That means that vast majority of holders think the stock is going up.  If the volume is high and the stocks are going down, chances the majority of holders are bailing or cashing in.
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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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This is the list of the ticker symbols of most Chinese companies ( or companies that have something to do with China/Asia ) traded in NYSE/NASDAQ.\n\nACH ASIA BIDU CBA CEA CEO CHA CHINA CHL CHU CNTF CTDC CTRP CYD FMCN GCH IIJI JEQ JFC JOBS JOF JRJC KONG LFC LONG LTON NCTY NTES PCNTF PFCB PTR SINA SNDA SNP SOHU WRSP XING ZNH
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99.99% of the time you loose it if it is equity. Equity is the last obligation to be settled.  There is seldom anything left.
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The most profitable stock portfolios DO NOT invest in just one country.
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Try standardandpoors.com and also you can get it on Yahoo and also run a stock screener to get a list of lets say companies with highest beta. Please remember that beta by itself is not a sufficient enough measure of correlation since the r^2 could be very low meaning that the beta is irrelevant
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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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It definitely has to do with the total valuation of a company which is figured by multiplying the umber of outstanding shares by the share price.  There are small-cap, mid-cap, and large cap stocks.  You have probably only heard of large-cap stocks like Cisco and Microsoft.  However, small cap stocks make up a huge portion of the stock market.
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The Dow Jones and NASDAQ are few of the exchanges where securities are traded.\n\nDow Jones, or "The Dow" as it usually called, is the oldest index in the US, founded in 1884 by Charles Dow. It first included 11 stocks (nine railroads and two industrials). In 1896, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, DJIA, was launched, tracking the overall performance of only industrial stocks.\n\nNow, the Dow Jones Index includes 30 biggest stocks and one of the averages that investors mostly follow.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average consists of the following 30 companies:\n\n    * 3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) (conglomerates, "manufacturing")\n    * ALCOA Inc. (NYSE: AA) (aluminum)\n    * Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) (tobacco, foods)\n    * American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) (credit services)\n    * American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) (property & casualty insurance)\n    * AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) (telecoms)\n    * Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) (aerospace/defense)\n    * Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) (farm & construction equipment)\n    * Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) (money center banks)\n    * Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) (beverages)\n    * E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (NYSE: DD) (chemicals)\n    * Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) (major integrated oil & gas)\n    * General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) (conglomerates, media)\n    * General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) (auto manufacturers)\n    * Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) (diversified computer systems)\n    * Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) (home improvement stores)\n    * Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) (conglomerates)\n    * Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) (semiconductors)\n    * International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) (diversified computer systems)\n    * Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (consumer and health care products conglomerate)\n    * JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) (money center banks)\n    * McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) (restaurant franchise)\n    * Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE: MRK) (drug manufacturers)\n    * Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) (software)\n    * Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) (drug manufacturers)\n    * Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) (consumer goods)\n    * United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) (conglomerates)\n    * Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) (telecoms)\n    * Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) (discount, variety stores)\n    * Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) (entertainment)\n\nThe NASDAQ, created in 1971, the Nasdaq was the world's first electronic stock market. The Nasdaq is a computerized system that facilitates trading and provides price quotations on some 5,000 of the more actively traded over-the-counter stocks.\n \nThe term "Nasdaq" used to be capitalized "NASDAQ" as an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. In recent times, the acronym was dropped, and Nasdaq is now used as a proper noun.\n\nThe Nasdaq is traditionally home to many high-tech stocks. The big ones include Microsoft, Intel, Dell and Cisco.\n\nThe NASDAQ is an over-the-counter exhange trading mostly technology stocks.
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Yahoo is a publicly traded company (on the NASDAQ).  Ironically, I searched Google for that answer...\n\nhttp://finance.google.com/finance?q=yahoo
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Performing in terms of stock price? If so, you need to define the universe. Is it all public traded stocks worldwide, within the S&P 500 only, on the NYSE only, NASDAQ only, all US exchanges, over what timeframe, etc. etc.\n\nIf you're interested in top performing stocks in the S&P 500, here's a list of the Top 50 since 1980...\n\nhttp://www2.standardandpoors.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=sp/Page/IndicesIndexPg&l=EN&b=4&f=1&s=6&ig=48&i=56&r=1&xcd=500&fd=EquityAnnualPriceAppreciation
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assets = liabilities + stockholder's equity (A=L+E)\n\nif A-L < 0, then shareholder's equity is less than zero\n\nin other words, if you have more liabilities than assets
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Publicly traded companies are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Information can be found on those companies online.  Yahoo has a financial section that has links to much of the available info.  Privately held companies in the US have no public information requirements, that I know of.
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I think international stocks, mostly mutual funds that trade in stocks of coutries like India, China, Russia etc. The indian stock market overtook dow jones a couple days back, first time in 18 something years..