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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 ...
The 1992 Indian stock market scam was a market manipulation carried out by Harshad Mehta with other bankers and politicians on the Bombay Stock Exchange.The scam caused significant disruption to the stock market of India, defrauding investors of over fifteen million million USD.
There are twenty one stock exchanges in the world that have a market capitalization of over US$1 trillion each. They are sometimes referred to as the "$1 Trillion Club". These exchanges accounted for 87% of global market capitalization in 2016. [1] Some exchanges do include companies from outside the country where the exchange is located.
NSE commenced operations on 30 June 1994 [20] starting with the wholesale debt market (WDM) segment and equities segment on 3 November 1994. [21] It was the first exchange in India to introduce an electronic trading facility. [22] Within one year of the start of its operations, the daily turnover on NSE exceeded that of the BSE. [17]
The following list sorts countries by the total market capitalization of all domestic companies [clarification needed] listed in the country, according to data from the World Bank. Market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares. [1]
Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine.
Two pharmaceutical giants were ordered to pay $266 million to the city of Baltimore after a jury found them liable of fueling the opioid crisis, a nationwide epidemic of addiction that kills tens ...
Published since 1 January 1986, the S&P BSE SENSEX is regarded as the pulse of the domestic stock markets in India. [2] [3] The base value of the SENSEX was taken as 100 on 1 April 1979 and its base year as 1978–79. On 25 July 2001 BSE launched DOLLEX-, a dollar-linked version of the SENSEX. [4]