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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 ...
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.
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]
For example, in a 2-for-1 split, one $200 share becomes two $100 shares. If you were an original Coca-Cola shareholder, your one share would have bubbled up to 9,216 shares over the years.
Shares for the company are down 12% year to date as the company is set to report its third quarter earnings results on Dec. 4. after market close Brooke DiPalma is a senior reporter for Yahoo Finance.
The NIFTY 50 index covers 13 sectors of the Indian economy and offers investment managers exposure to the Indian market in one portfolio. As of July 2024, NIFTY 50 gives a weightage of 32.76% to financial services including banking , 13.76% to information technology , 12.12% to oil and gas , 8.46% to consumer goods , and 8.22% to automotive .
Stock market indices may be categorized by their index weight methodology, or the rules on how stocks are allocated in the index, independent of its stock coverage. For example, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Equal Weight each cover the same group of stocks, but the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, while the S&P 500 Equal Weight places equal weight on each constituent.
Earl Albert, a widower from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, who donated the 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, suffered a stroke before the tree lighting.