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  • on 30.01.2010
  • at 11:49 PM
  • by Rob

Brief history of the Stock Market 0

Jan30

Around year 1600’s, stocks were started in Europe. Since the companies needed capital to expand and explore more about the arising market, they sold a fraction of the assets belonging to the business to investors. In fact, the oldest certificate of stock was sold to have resource to be invested in the trade of spice in India and Far Eastern part of the world. Meanwhile, the current stock market was created during the 19th century when commerce was transferred to England, but they didn’t have the best currency trading software back then to make things easy.

At the dawn of the Wall Street, corruption and volatility is present in almost company. It is difficult to discern information about the status of the investments. Thus, it is possible that even if falsified details are provided with the other owners, it wouldn’t be discovered. Nevertheless, in 20th century, all the fraud and dishonesty surrounding the trade has been cleared because of the establishment of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Federal Reserve. SEC has enacted laws that will regulate the exchange market. Some of these are Securities Act of 1933, Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and Trust Indenture Act of 1939. On the other hand, Federal Reserve oversees the financial stability of the country including the stock market.

Also, two distinguished events in the account of the marketplace are the huge crashed in 1929 and 1987. The first collapse leads to Great Depression in United States which is considered the worst in its economic history. Personal incomes, revenues, profits, and prices dropped into halves or more. Although the main cause of the depression is not clear to the people, economists believe that it was brought by the increase in valuation of stocks. Further, the fear of shareholders contributed to the downfall. Another occurrence sparked in 1987 when stock prices fell for about 20% in just one day. Moreover, this is caused by the same fear of vanishing wealth among the people who have invested.

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