Introduction to Stock Markets

Introduction to Stock Markets

A ‘share’ or ‘stock’ is worth a certain amount of share in the ownership of a public corporation. In a share market, shares are bought and sold. The stock market is a share market, however besides shares of companies, other instruments like bonds, mutual funds and derivative contracts too are traded in the stock market.

Here, you will read in This Book :

01. The Need to Invest
02. Regulators
03. Financial Intermediaries
04. The IPO Markets - Part 1
05. The IPO Markets - Part 2
06. The Stock Markets
07. The Stock Markets Index
08. Commonly used Jargons
09. The Trading Terminal
10. Clearing and Settlement process
11. Five corporate actions and its impact on stock prices
12. Key Events and Their Impact on Markets
13. Getting started