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Chart of S&P BSE SENSEX monthly data from January 1991 to May 2013. The following is a timeline on the rise of the SENSEX through Indian stock market history. 1000, 25 July 1990 – On 25 July 1990, the SENSEX touched the four-digit figure for the first time and closed at 1,001 in the wake of a good monsoon and excellent corporate results.
The "pump and dump" scheme involves artificially inflating the price of a stock (pump) through false or misleading positive statements. Once the price has been significantly raised, the operators then sell off their holdings (dump) at the inflated prices, leading to a sharp price decline and substantial losses for other investors who bought in ...
The BSE SENSEX is one of two main stock market indices used in the Indian equity markets. This category lists the stocks that are currently part of the index.
The median value of directly owned stock in the bottom quintile of income is $4,000 and is $78,600 in the top decile of income as of 2007. [16] The median value of indirectly held stock in the form of retirement accounts for the same two groups in the same year is $6,300 and $214,800 respectively. [16]
Amex indices . NYSE Arca Major Market Index; CBOE indices . CBOE DJIA BuyWrite Index (BXD) CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index (BXN) CBOE NASDAQ-100 Volatility Index (VXN); CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM)
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.
The NIFTY 50 index is a free float market capitalisation-weighted index.. Stocks are added to the index based on the following criteria: [1] Must have traded at an average impact cost of 0.50% or less during the last six months for 90% of the observations, for the basket size of Rs. 100 Million.
As per Rediff, "The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 207 points at 15,344 amid weak trends in the global market and slipped deeper into the red. Unabated selling across-the-board saw the index tumble to a low of 14,911. The Sensex finally ended with a nifty loss of 615 points at 14,936. The NSE Nifty ended at 4,346, down 183 points.