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Even though the departments offer different services, they all contribute to the overall goals of the firm. They mainly deal with issues relating to securities trading and selling. The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive outlook of the retail and institutional sales department. The central function and responsibility of the department is to provide investment advice, obtain securities orders from individual and institutional or corporate clients and marketing services (Besley & Brigham, 2014). Some of the principal customers include insurance firms, banks, government and private pension plans corporate retirement plans among others (Downes & Goodman, 2003). The operations and processes at the retail wing are focused on individual clients who are interested in buying and selling stocks, mutual funds and bonds. In particular, daily operations in the department entail buying and selling of securities, offering investment advice and the provision of the marketing support for investment brokers. Representatives who work in the department also answer and respond to customer queries through telephones calls and emails from customers and mailing marketing literature and surveys to retail and institutional clients (Lee & Gabriel,

This part of the report will analyze and explain the different trading and investing strategies used for Cypress Semiconductor Corp, CyberArk Software Ltd, Google Inc, and Apple Inc.

Our first trade was a short straddled position of the company American Water Works Company (NYSE: AWK). This company is under utilities industry with a sub-industry of water and wastewater, it also owns a few subsidiaries that manage municipal drinking water. This company operates in the United States and Canada, and is known to be the largest and most geographically diverse, publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company.

The due date for this quiz is Mon 16 Sep 2013 6:30 PM IST (UTC +0530).

This was partially due to the negotiations with the U.S. government for possible contracts to create renewable gas stations all across the United States which would have given the company preferential government treatment and expected earnings. However; analysts were beginning to speculate that the stock was overvalued as they expected only a $0.17 increase in EPS while the stock price was still soaring 30% above the correct value. In turn I shorted the stock and made a small profit.

On the last Stock Market game, i chose four companies as my targets(Apple, Google, Pandora and Fitbit inc), but this time i added two more companies:KBH and SONS. In this financial journal,i will record each company’s stock movement and my personal opinion.

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This report is based on two companies publicly listed on the London stock exchange (LSE), comparing the two companies together and choosing one from the two chosen companies. Investing a sum of twelve thousand pounds in the company chosen, tracking the shares from the 5th November 2105 to 8th of January 2016. This report will demonstrate the findings and results of price fluctuation over a period of time, the pest and swot analysis of the company chosen and record the performance with references.

The research paper on “A Study on Individuals Investors Behavior in Stock Markets of India” by Rakesh HM aims to understand the behavior of individual investor in stock market, specifically their attitude and perception with respect to the stock market. A survey is conducted to collect data relating to the above subject. Respondents were classified into different categories like income, profession, education status, sex and age.

Financial investors and traders are always faced with the option on deciding which trading instrument to choose: blue chip stocks or forex. Most likely, the choice will be dependent on the trader’s style and risk tolerance. Investors who buy for the long term are more suited in stock markets; while, those that want to earn on the short term, would be swing and day scalpers, who would opt to go into the more volatile forex markets.

‘ALL of customers deserve excellent service, innovative investing products and superior value’ is stated in the website of 8 Securities. It is believed that 8 Securities’ success is fully tied with the innovation and product development. Most importantly, without being prevented by the risks of new launches, it is the customer focused mind-set that has built its strong customer-centric corporate culture leading to the successful products. Well said Kotler (2005), ‘Customer satisfaction will only be achieved if the entire organisation teams up to form a competitively superior customer value.’ Future marketers are suggested to pay more attention to consumer behaviour and customer experience so as to create demanding product/service to bring higher level of expectation and satisfaction to customers.

The Indian capital market has witness impressive growth and qualitative changes, especially over the last two decades. In the fifties, sixties and most of the seventies, it was in a dormant stage when the investors were generally not familiar with, or inclined towards, the corporate securities. During this time, only few companies accessed the capital market. As a consequence, trading volumes were low during these years. The process of liberalization of the Indian economy since the early nineties has contributed to changes in the capital market scenario. The entry of

I Pragati of B.com(Hons) would like to express my sincere thanks to amity university for giving me the opportunity to carry out a research on the topic ‘’a study of consumer ‘s investment in india’’.The whole period spent in making has been immense learning experience about the Indian stock market.

The stock market is witnessing keen activities and is gradually more gaining Importance. Post the1997 East Asian disaster which had caused significant reduction in asset prices and stock markets in quite a small number of Asian countries, these economies bang back. These economies maintained high interest rates thereby creation them attractive to foreign investors. As a result these economies customary a large inflow of funds and experienced a theatrical run-up in asset prices. As a part of market amalgamation, the capital market of India is no longer cut off from international economic measures and their stock index travels. This paper finds the correlation of Indian Stock market with four other major Asian economies: Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea. A weak correlation concludes that the Indian stock markets propose diversification benefits to institutional and international investors. The paper finds non routine feature in the stock return allotment of the five economies of Asia including India. The Indian markets showed facial exterior of platykurtic distribution, the volatility of

The study pertains to comparative analysis of the Indian Stock Market with respect to various asian counterparts. Exchanges are now crossing national boundaries to extend their service areas and this has led to cross-border integration. Also, exchanges have begun to offer cross-border trading to facilitate overseas investment options for investors. This not only increased the appeal of the exchange for investors but also attracts more volume. Exchanges regularly solicit companies outside their home territory and encourage them to list on their