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Secondary Markets Stock Exchanges
• Markets where investors trade previously • NYSE is a secondary, auction market in
issued securities equity shares
• Auction markets involve bidding in a – Not-for-profit organization of members
specific physical location – Listing requirements for traded firms
– Brokers represent investors for a fee – “Specialists” assigned to each traded equity to
– Others trade for their own account make a market in that stock
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Equity Market Indicators Equity Market Indicators
• Standard & Poor’s Composite Index • NYSE and NASDAQ Composite Indices
– Composed of 500 “large” firm stocks – Value-weighted indices of broad markets
– Expressed as index number relative to a base • Nikkei 225 Average
index value of 10 (1941-43) – Price-weighted index of 225 actively -traded
– Value-weighted index: Prices and shares stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
outstanding considered
• Indicates how much the average equity value of
the 500 firms in the index has increased relative to
the base period
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Brokerage Operations Account Types
• Brokerage firms earn commissions on • Cash account: Investor pays 100% of
executed trades, sales loads on mutual purchase price for securities
funds, profits from securities sold from • Margin account: Investor borrows part of
inventory, underwriting fees and the purchase price from the broker
administrative account fees • Asset management account: automatic
– Full-service brokers offer order execution, reinvestment of excess cash balances in
information on markets and firms, and
investment advice
money market fund
– Discount brokers offer order execution
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Orders in OTC Markets Types of Orders
• Dealers ready to either buy or sell • Market orders: Authorizes immediate
– Bid price is highest offer price to buy transaction at best available price
– Ask price is lowest price willing to sell • Limit orders: Specifies a particular market
• Ask price - Bid price >0 (dealer spread) price before a transaction is authorized
– “Makes a market” in the security • Stop orders: Specifies a particular market
– More than one dealer for each security in price at which a market order is authorized
over-the-counter markets
Settlement Regulation
• Most settlement dates are three business • SEC Act of 1934 created the Securities
days after the trade date and Exchange Commission
– Legal ownership transferred and financial – Administers all securities law
arrangements settled with brokerage firm – Monitors public securities transactions
– Book-entry system reduces costs • Requires issuer registration for public offers
• Transfer of securities and funds between • Investigates indications of violations such as
“insider trading”
exchange members facilitated by a
clearinghouse • Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970:
insures accounts
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Margin Accounts Short Selling
• Federal Reserve sets the minimum initial • Investor borrows stock from broker or held
margin on securities in “street name” accounts
– Unchanged since 1974 at 50% • Borrowed security sold in open market, to
• Actual margin at any time cannot go below be repurchased later at an expected price
the maintenance margin level set by lower than sale price
exchanges, brokers – Investor liable for declared dividends
– Investor’s equity changes with price – Short sale proceeds held by broker
– Margin call when equity below maintenance – Demand loan of stock
level