A Stock Market Crash is an unexpected and abrupt decline in the share prices of listed companies in the stock exchanges/markets. It results in a huge loss of wealth across the trading community and investors. Generally, the stock market crashes precede an economic depression. All global stock markets witnessed a 40% to 50% crash in March […]
What is a Share?
Share/Stock I have already explained what is a Security. Now, let us discuss in detail about the Share or Stock of a company. Officially, in financial terms, a Share is defined as a part of the ownership of a company or any financial asset. A company may decide to raise the required capital by selling […]
Demat Account and Stockbrokers
We have dicussed what is a Demat account, Depository, and Depository Participant in the previous article. We shall now discuss in brief how to start a demat account. For investing directly in stock markets, having a demat account is mandatory. We can open a demat account with any one of the depository participants registered with […]
What is a DeMat Account?
Introduction: In the earlier days, companies issued their shares and bonds as physical certificates. Buying and holding shares in physical format was a lengthy and burdensome process. Sometimes, people may buy fake share certificates, it’s like exchanging our services with fake currency bills. To find the solution for such complications, the physical share and other […]