Intro to Business › Section P · Financial management and securities markets › Topic P.7
Buying and selling securities, and market trends
A share bought on a phone app passes through brokers, exchanges and clearing systems in a fraction of a second. This topic follows how secondary trading works today, the indexes that summarise it, the laws and safeguards that police it, and the trends reshaping it.
In this topic
- Where trading happens now
- The NYSE and Nasdaq
- How an order is filled
- Worked example: the cost of a spread
- Market indexes
- Worked example: weighting changes the answer
- Securities laws
- Self-regulation and safeguards
- Trends in finance and markets
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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