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Pre-market trading can be a good way to get into the market or out of it, particularly for widely followed stocks and funds. With pre-market trading, you can place trades before much of the market ...
Market cap is the share price multiplied by the number of outstanding shares. Free-float or float-adjusted market cap only considers shares available for trading, subtracting shares that are ...
Stocks inched higher on Wednesday amid a shortened week of trading and few major catalysts to drive market action. The S&P 500 ( ^GSPC ) neared an all-time high close of 4,796.56 on Wednesday but ...
Extended-hours trading (or electronic trading hours, ETH) is stock trading that happens either before or after the trading day regular trading hours (RTH) of a stock exchange, i.e., pre-market trading or after-hours trading. [1] After-hours trading is the name for buying and selling of securities when the major markets are closed. [2]
The NYSE Composite outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq Composite, and the S&P 500 in 2004, 2005, and 2006 [3] and closed above the 10,000 level for the first time on June 1, 2007. The NYSE Composite set a closing high of 10,311.61 on October 31, 2007, but failed to pass the intra-day high of 10,387.17 it reached in trading ...
Tick sizes can be fixed (e.g., USD 0.0001) or vary according to the current price (common in European markets) with larger increments at higher prices. Heavily-traded stocks are given smaller tick sizes. An instrument price is always a rational number and the tick sizes determine the numbers that are permissible for a given instrument and exchange.
US stocks closed mixed on Friday amid a low-volume day of trading following the Thanksgiving holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up about 0.3%, or more than 100 points higher, while ...
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) adopted a circuit breaker mechanism in September 2008. Under the mechanism stock trading may be halted for 15 minutes if the (PSE) falls at least 10% based on the previous day's closing index value. Trading may be halted only once per market session and not 30 minutes prior to noon or the trade closing. [15]