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Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), the primary stock exchange group in Australia, was created in July 2006 when the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange merged to form one entity. ASX, ranked...

Canadian Dollar-CAD

The Canadian dollar is the legal tender of Canada. It is denoted by symbol $ or C$ and the international code of the currency is CAD. As of 2011, the Canadian dollar was world’s...

Stock trader

People want to trade in the stock market, because everyone can make money through the stock market by using phone call or using internet from computer. Why stocks are good investments, because they can...

Corporate Finance

Corporate finance deals with monetary decisions that businesses make and the analytic tools required for making the decisions. At its best, the goal of corporate finance is to try to maximize shareholder value. Although...

London Stock Exchange (LSE)

The London Stock Exchange is located in the city of London, Great Britain. The London Stock exchange is the world’s fourth largest exchange in terms of market capitalization and first in Europe. As of...

Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKG)

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, or HKEx, operates a securities market and a derivatives market in Hong Kong and the clearing houses for those markets. HKEx was listed in Hong Kong in 2000...

BM&F Bovespa

BM&FBOVESPA is a Brazilian company, created in 2008, through the integration between the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo) and the Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange (Bolsa de Mercadorias e...

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)

TMX Group is an integrated, multi-asset class exchange group. TMX Group’s businesses operate cash and derivative markets for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. They also provide clearing facilities, data products...

Shanghai Stock Exchange

Introduction The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is based in the city of Shanghai, China. This stock exchange is one of the two exchanges that operate independently in the People’s Republic of China (other stock...

Iraqi Dinar-IQD

The Iraqi dinar is the legal tender of Iraq. The currency code is IQD (although no international bank exchanges Iraqi dinar ). The Iraqi dinar is issued by Iraq’s federal bank, the Central Bank of...

Personal Finance

Principles of finance are applied at different levels for taking monetary decisions, right from the level of an individual to a nation’s economy. Application of these principles at the level of an individual or...

Derivatives Market

The derivatives market is the market for financial instruments derived from another asset. Futures and options contracts are one example of derivatives. A derivatives market may be exchange regulated or over-the-counter. Not only is...

Indian Rupee-INR

The Indian Rupee is the official currency of the Republic of India. The international code of Indian Rupee is INR and it denoted by symbol. The Reserve Bank of India, India’s federal bank is...

Japanese Yen-JPY

The Japanese yen is the legal tender of Japan. Its code in financial markets is JPY and the symbol used to denote the yen is ¥. The Japanese yen is one of the most...

Global Financial Crisis

The global economic crisis has yet to bottom out. The major industrial economies are in a deep recession, and growth in the developing world is slowing dramatically. The danger of falling into a deflationary...