{"id":24429,"date":"2015-02-23T06:08:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=24429"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:52:52","slug":"stock-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Stock-markets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25686\" alt=\"Stock markets\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Stock-markets.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stock markets are part of the capital markets (maturity in excess of 1 year), as are the bond\u00a0and mortgage markets. The mortgage market remains largely domestic and is not discussed\u00a0here. Stocks purchased on these markets help diversify investor portfolios. Portfolio risk is\u00a0thereby reduced, provided the correlation between stock returns of different economies is\u00a0lower than that of a single country. Institutional investors and pension fund managers (if\u00a0permitted), managing large funds, are likewise attracted to foreign shares.\u00a0The growth of global unit trusts or mutual funds has also increased the demand for\u00a0foreign equity. Fund managers select and manage the stocks for the trust or fund, using\u00a0their (supposedly) superior information sets compared to the majority of individuals.and\u00a0transactions costs are lower than they would be with an independent set of investments.\u00a0The euro equities market has grown quite rapidly in recent years, and caters to firms\u00a0issuing\u00a0stocks for sale in foreign markets. Investment banks (many headquartered in New\u00a0York) underwrite the issues, which, in turn, are purchased by institutional investors around\u00a0the world. Secondary markets for these foreign issues normally emerge.<br \/>\nFirms issue equity on foreign stock markets for several reasons.<br \/>\n1To increase their access to funds without oversupplying the home market, which would depress the share price. Foreign investors, with a different information set to home\u00a0investors, may also demand the stock more.<br \/>\n2 To enhance the global reputation of the firm.<br \/>\n3 To take advantage of regulatory differences.<br \/>\n4 To widen share ownership and so reduce the possibility of hostile takeovers.<br \/>\n5 To ensure that their shares can be traded almost continuously, on a 24-hour basis.<br \/>\n6 Funds raised in foreign currencies can be used to fund foreign branches or subsidiaries\u00a0and dividends will be paid in the currency, thereby reducing the currency exposure of a\u00a0multinational enterprise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/accounting-banking-and-finance\">Click here for government certification in Accounting, Banking &amp; Finance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stock markets are part of the capital markets (maturity in excess of 1 year), as are the bond\u00a0and mortgage markets. The mortgage market remains largely domestic and is not discussed\u00a0here. Stocks purchased on these markets help diversify investor portfolios. Portfolio risk is\u00a0thereby reduced, provided the correlation between stock returns of different economies is\u00a0lower than that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":25686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1519],"tags":[2247,2118,1642,1760],"class_list":["post-24429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accounting-banking-and-finance","tag-investors","tag-prices","tag-shares","tag-stock-markets"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stock markets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What exactly are Stock markets?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stock markets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What exactly are Stock markets?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Vskills Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vskills.in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-23T06:08:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-03T07:52:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Stock-markets.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"269\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"188\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sneh lata\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sneh lata\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/\",\"name\":\"Stock markets\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Stock-markets.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-02-23T06:08:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-03T07:52:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/268a02ac43c21c08a0decf13b7827a99\"},\"description\":\"What exactly are Stock markets?\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Stock-markets.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Stock-markets.jpg\",\"width\":269,\"height\":188},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/stock-markets\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Stock markets\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Vskills Blog\",\"description\":\"Vskills - 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