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March 4 (Bloomberg) — Maged Shawky, chairman of Egypt’s stock exchange, talks with Bloomberg’s Maryam Nemazee and Susan Li about efforts to attract additional foreign investment in Egypt. (Source: Bloomberg)

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i’am 15 at the moment , my question is what do i have to do to be a big dog in the stock markets in the future?

Start today, and learn all you can about the market, the securities traded in the market and rules governing the market,

Start your education by learning why you should invest and the importance of being able to make your own decisions or how the pro’s make theirs.

Here is some reading material that can get you started in the right direction,

The first book you should read is Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Then try some of these
What Works on Wall Street by James O’Shaunessey
Beating the Street by Peter Lynch
One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom
Trading For a Living by Alexander Elder
Mastering the Trade” by John Caster
How to Make Money in Stocks” by William O’Neil
The Disciplined Trader by Mark Douglas

Get into the habit of making daily visits to some websites like MSN Money and Yahoo Finance. (http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp http://finance.yahoo.com/ )

While at MSN following the strategy lab analysts to get a feel for what the pros are doing and why. This site has some basic information for beginners. If any site offers free information, take it.

Other website that can provide instructions and help with procedures and terminology are
Investopedia – http://www.investopedia.com/ Stock Charts – http://stockcharts.com/
http://www.investorshub.com/ http://www.1source4stocks.com/

When you’re reading to invest in something, have one of your parents to open a custodian account for you and start to invest very carefully

Stay in school and get an academic education, which will help you in life.

The reason for this question is, there is a strong belief worldwide that these are the emerging economies, with potential to give you the best return on investment, equities yielding about 20-25% average (specific good stocks yielding even 100%+), and debt yielding 8-9%.

If so, what is the maximum you would invest in these countries?

Also, would you like to test the waters initially with a small investment? How much will that be?

What is your risk perception of these markets?

I am invested in both Chinese equities and Indian equities. Sort of foolish not to be in my opinion. But the markets are not what one would wish to risk a great deal. I might have more invested in them than a conservative financial advisor would recommend. It is recommend to limit ones investments in these markets to about 10% of ones equity investments.

India and China are both very volitile. You get taken for quite a ride in them both up and down. I believe the average Indian equity is currently selling at a pe of about 35. Although China has a reputation for very high security prices, I do not believe that most are that high. More in the low 20s.

There are various funds that invest in both India and China. They offer diversification which can mitigate somewhat the risks. For China, TDF, CHN and several others also. For India IIF and INF and also a few others, not so many as China. Also there are various ADRs traded in the U S. CHL is my favorite. Somewhat of a bargain currently after the 12% drop last week.

I WANT TO MAKE MY CAREER IN STOCK MARKET SO I WOULD APPRECIATE GENUINE ANSWERS OF YOURS..THANKS.

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I want the list of all the stock markets and their corresponding codes
I want the list of all the stock markets in the world and their corresponding codes

You can get all from bseindia.com and nseindia.com dear.

If the markets behave rationally and if investors are rational answer the following:

Why are there such big moves in stocks that are supposed to be "fairly priced" at all times?

Rational is not the same as realistic. There is a lot of propaganda going on in financial markets that often deceives investors.

Rational behavior based on false perceptions is no different from irrational behavior in its consequences. Which means deceived investors acting rationally can end up bidding up stock prices to irrational levels. Which has happened most spectacularly during the dot com boom. But this kind of thing happens in financial markets all the time to some degree.

The problem is that stock market investors try to predict the future when they buy shares. Nobody knows the future for sure. And in these circumstances it’s relatively easy for various players in the stock market and for the government to manipulate people’s expectations of the future.

Such attempts at manipulation don’t work every time. But it usually does work for some time, before people learn from their experience. Then some more time passes by. Some people leave the stock market or forget their experience. New people enter the stock market. And the manipulation begins to work again.

In the world of finance, why is there more than one stock market in our country? i.e. why do we have the NYSE, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and all those others? It seems to me that our economy would be more stable if we all traded through say the NYSE. Then we get accurate readings on how well the stocks are doing. And one other question: What is the difference between those three companies…IF there is any? Do companies get to choose who they trade with?

And if stocks are from the company’s profit, then how does the company make profit? I just want some clarity on how the stock market really works. Thank you!

Good questions, well the NASDAQ and NYSE are stock exchanges, the DOW jones is really just a basket of stocks, it’s not a market itself.

There are thousands of stocks, stock options and commodities in the US and companies list on the exchanges that are more suitable for them, different exchanges have different listing requirements.

There are actually a lot more exchanges in the US that are usually not talked about.

While I can’t explain how the stock market works in detail I would recommend your local book store – "Stocks for dummies" or something along those lines, you’ll gain a great deal of insight on how the financial markets work.

Stocks wouldnt’ be more stable if they were all on one exchange, because a stock price’s stability comes from many different factors.

All the best of luck to you!

Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Saluzzi, co-head of equity trading at Themis Trading LLC, talks with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar about the outlook for the U.S. stock market.
Saluzzi and Dan Cook, senior market analyst at IG Markets Inc., also discuss the Recovery Act and the U.S. economy.

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I have to do a report on the causes of the great depression, and I’ve already got the crash of banks and stock market down, so what happens next?

trying to fix it was the biggest issue. no one remembers the depression of 1920 because nothing was doen about it and it was over in 8 months. the free market system works if we let it.

housing market here in northern Ireland have come to a halt,
with interest rates having gone up, and house prices are set to take a tumble.
with this slide in the stock markets could this make the housing market even worse.
and if you can tell me have the house prices fallen in england , Scotland , and wales if so could you tell roughly by how much.

As fars as I know house prices have started falling in parts of England but in London they are still going up, just not as quickly. The fall in stocks should not directly affect house prices, they were caused by the same thing that caused the increased interest rates. ie the sub-prime lending market collapse/inter-bank loan crisis/credit crunch