BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Stock Market
- the trading of stocks, or a place where this occurs
Wiktionary Definition for: Stock Market
- A market for the trading of company stock.
Additional Resources
- Idiosyncratic Volatility, Stock Market Volatility, And Expected Stock Returns
- "Theories suggest that both stock market risk and idiosyncratic risk are important determinants of the equity premium but empirical evidence is inconclusive. This paper shows that the (value-weighted) idiosyncratic stock volatility in conjunction with aggregate stock market volatility exhibits strong predictive abilities for excess stock market returns. Consistent with the...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Why The Stock Market Is Rising?
- Today we speculate about why the stock market is rising and whether it can continue to do so, given all the negative economic news. Along the way we will look at a very interesting study on stock values which will be different than the usual report you see. The world...
- White papers 2003-05-03
- A The U.S. Stock Market and Fundamentals
- The authors identify the fundamentals behind the dynamics of the U.S. stock market over the past 30 years. They specify a structural vector-error-correction model following the methodology of King, Plosser, Stock, and Watson (1991). This methodology identifies structural shocks with the imposition of long-run restrictions. It allows the authors to...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Does Idiosyncratic Risk Matter: Another Look
- This paper shows that the equal-weighted average stock volatility analyzed and forecasts stock returns because of its co-movements with stock market volatility. Moreover, contrary to the positive relation hypothesized and it was found that the value-weighted average stock volatility is negatively related to future stock returns when combined with stock...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Stock Market Efficiency and Economic Efficiency: Is There a Connection?
- This paper present a model of the stock market in which: i managers have discretion in making investments and must be given the right incentives; and ii stock market traders may have important information that managers do not have about the value of prospective investment opportunities. In equilibrium, information in...
- White papers 1997-03-21
- Effect Of Market Volatility On Stock Compensation Plans
- As stock prices have dropped over the past year, many companies are finding that the stock options they have issued are underwater that is, the fair market value of the stock has fallen below the exercise price of the option. The new accounting rules are handcuffing these companies on what...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- The Fed Model and Stock Valuation: What It Does and Does Not Tell Us
- When the stock market was reaching record new highs in 1999 and 2000, many stock valuation models began sounding the alarm - flagging what in hindsight proved to be an extremely overvalued stock market. However, most investors unfortunately chose to ignore this available information, believing instead that one had entered...
- White papers 2003-11-27
- What Is Market Efficiency?
- When money is put into the stock market, it is done with the aim of generating a return on the capital invested. Many investors try not only to make a profitable return but also to outperform, or "Beat," the market. However, market efficiency - detailed in the Efficient Market Hypothesis...
- White papers
- Who's Afraid of Deflation?
- We think deflation fears are overblown, but it never hurts to ask, "What if?" When we look to stock market history, does deflation deserve its reputation as a stock market suppressant, or is it getting a bad rap? The stock market posts above-average returns when consumer prices are relatively stable....
- White papers 2003-08-01
- A Forecasting Model That Integerates Multiple Business And Stock Market Cycles
- This paper shows that classical business cycles can be integrated with stock-market cycles in an effective forecasting model. The Stock-Market and Economic Cycles Template SMECT demonstrates that these cycles are linked in a binary harmonic sequencing that is primarily trough-synchronized. Bronson’s BAAC Supercycle provides the crucial missing link in this...
- White papers 2002-08-12
- Stock Market Developments and Private Consumer Spending in Emerging Markets
- Using a panel of 16 emerging markets, the paper finds a small but statistically significant effect of stock market developments on private consumption spending. In the short run, a 10 percent decline in the annual real stock market return is associated with a reduction in real private consumption by around...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Investor Alert: Stock Market Fraud "Survivor" Checklist
- Investor enthusiasm for the Internet has created tremendous financial opportunities in recent years – for stock market fraudsters! That's because they often use the Internet to lure innocent investors into their scams. But you can survive stock market fraud and avoid becoming a victim if you follow the steps provided...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- A Review of Financial Markets II
- After a third consecutive year of declining stock markets, there is one question on everyone’s mind, when will this bear market end? This is the first time the US stock market has declined for three years in a row since 1939-1941. As measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average,...
- White papers
- On the Out-of-Sample Predictability of Stock Market Returns
- This paper provides new evidence of the out-of-sample predictability of stock returns. In particular, it finds that the consumption-wealth ratio in conjunction with a measure of aggregate stock market volatility exhibits substantial out-of-sample forecasting power for excess stock market returns. In addition, simple trading strategies based on the documented predictability...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- On The Out-of-Sample Stock Return Predictability: The International Evidence
- This paper, shows that the forecasting variables of the US excess stock market return also forecast returns on international stock market indices, both in sample and out of sample. In addition, the out of sample forecasts of US or world excess returns are good proxies for those of international stock...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- What China's Stock Market Implosion Means for Oil
- The last time I revisited the Chinese stock market, it was in the throes of a major bear market. Fast forwarding to now shows things have only intensified with the Shanghai composite trading at less than half of its top in October 2007: by Babak
- External links 2008-06-17
- Stock Valuations
- Valuing stocks involves four basic issues: the characteristics of the stock as a financial security, the financial and business prospects of the issuer of the stock, the relative valuation of the particular stock versus other stocks, and the valuation of financial securities in general and the stock market in particular....
- White papers
- Proposed Changes in Accounting Treatment of Stock Options Prompt Review of Stock Plan Design
- The proposed requirement that companies expense stock options, combined with the challenges presented by a depressed stock market and greater scrutiny of equity compensation practices by institutional shareholders, have created a shift in focus away from traditional stock options to alternative kinds of equity compensation awards. Last week’s announcement...
- White papers 2003-07-16
- Asset Prices and Exchange Rates
- This paper develops a simple two-country, two-good model, in which the real exchange rate, stock and bond prices are jointly determined. The model predicts that stock market prices are correlated internationally even though their dividend processes are independent, providing a theoretical argument in favor of financial contagion. The foreign exchange...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Sharing Stock With Non-EmployeesII
- The article presents an interview with Eric Hornsten, Audit Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, who provides insight on sharing stock with non-employees and benefits of sharing stock with employees: greater retention and higher motivation, and improved business practices. Equity instruments provided to non-employees result in compensation expense equal to the fair market...
- White papers 1999-04-01
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