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Danny R | Who controls the prices of the stock market everyday? |
What I'm wondering who controls the prices of shares on the market at any given moment. It just seems wierd that every minute the price of a share changes. Are people from the company making the decision or is it some big computer deciding everything. |
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Supra1Q
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It's a combination of several factors
- market makers set the price initially based on a supposed fair evaluation of expected returns.......ie Visa which just IPOd
- so some people already own many shares(fractional pieces of the companies worth) and the rest are available for new buyers
- then once many are purchased some owners of the stock who need the money, or think the price is getting too high, or think the market or sector is too lofty or exposed downward will sell to new buyers.
- the company can buy back some outstanding shares which creates less supply of stock and the price goes up, or they can issue more shares to raise capital for investment and more supply usually drives the price down
- another company can buy them out which will usually immediately increase the price of existing shares significantly because of the offer from the buying company
- hedge funds (private large funds) can swoop in and start "shorting" a company's shares, which means selling them even if they don't own them, or buying put options which can make the price drop significantly...
- then their are events like earnings announcements and options expirations which can make the stock jump in either direction.....
- etc...... |
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idontknow
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its control by buyers and sellers. its not one person's game. its depend upon volume of buying and selling. |
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you-asked!
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supply and demand, the shareholders control it, if everyone starts selling their share at the same time, the price goes down, if noone wants to let their share go, the price goes up. |
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Serge M
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No one controls the prices of shares. the company that issued the shares has nothing to do with it. the prices change due to market forces, and those forces depend on the actions of hundreds of buyers and sellers acting in their best interest. The market is designed to be orderly by having specialists and market makers ready to buy and sell shares according to supply and demand determined by orders that are placed by investors. |
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AM-NM centaur
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I do ;-)P |
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raysor
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Danny boy, who do you think. It is the buyers and sellers. These may be individuals, institutions whatever. Also the derivatives have an effect. |
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ricks
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It is quite a number of factors. But the most direct one is the share buyers & sellers. All others are indirect such as good or bad company news which affects the buyers & sellers decision to buy or sell shares for that day or moment.
The market is driven by supply & demand. The more demand = higher price, the less demand = lower price. If the company has great news, like a new product or great gains from last year, everyone is going to want to buy it & that will drive the price up. The opposite also happens. |
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phyuphyu26
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It's an auction market and supposed to be fair. Meaning buyers and sellers have equal opportunities. But be very careful. That's half truth.
In principle that's how it's supposed to work but you dig deeper and you will be very disgusted. People with right information is taking advantage and manipulating the public. |
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unknown
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Individual investors and large money managers. |
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Madeline I
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What the person above me said! |
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Andrew B
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It is the BIG MONEY investors (ex. fund managers) that have enough money to buy enough shares to influence the price if you ask me. My brother and I were just discussing this yesterday. Also,I agree somebody or some computer has to be flicking switches. |
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