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In finance, market data is price and other related data for a financial instrument reported by a trading venue such as a stock exchange. Market data allows traders and investors to know the latest price and see historical trends for instruments such as equities, fixed-income products, derivatives, and currencies. [1]
The company was conceived as DBC Online by Data Broadcasting Corporation in the fall of 1995. [2] The marketwatch.com domain name was registered on July 30, 1997. [ 3 ] The website launched on October 30, 1997, as a 50/50 joint venture between DBC and CBS News , then run by Larry Kramer [ 2 ] and co-founder and chairman, Derek Reisfield . [ 4 ]
In 2007, CommScope was set to acquire Andrew Corporation in a $2.6 billion deal [71] through a stock swap, positioning Andrew's stock prices at $15.00/share at the time of acquisition. Ralph Faison justified his decision on the 2007 Andrew/CommScope merger by stating "CommScope has a strong position in the corporate-wireless market, an area ...
Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) provides a secondary market trading venue for issuers, brokers, shareholders, and prospective investors of private company stock.Since inception, NPM has facilitated more than $40 billion in transactional volume and has worked with 400+ private companies and 100,000+ employees, stakeholders, and investors.
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 a public stock exchange as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies that are sold to investors ...
A trading curb (also known as a circuit breaker [1] in Wall Street parlance) is a financial regulatory instrument that is in place to prevent stock market crashes from occurring, and is implemented by the relevant stock exchange organization. Since their inception, circuit breakers have been modified to prevent both speculative gains and ...
Hudson River Trading is a multi-asset class firm that trades across various time horizons. It differs from stereotypical high-frequency trading firms in several important ways: it holds about 25% of its trading capital overnight (unlike most high-frequency trading firms that hold almost nothing overnight), its average holding time is about five minutes as opposed to the sub-second times ...
Superior Cable came into existence in 1954 [1] and had sales passing $500 million [1] in 1997. In April 1999, Superior Essex was formed by a merger of Essex Wire Corporation and Superior Cable. [1] In 2008, the Korean LS Group acquired Superior Essex for roughly $900 million [10] to extend its reach into the North American and European market.