The Exchange enables companies from global giants to smaller enterprises around the world to raise the capital they need to grow, with a choice of four primary markets: the main market, the alternative investment market, the professional securities market and the specialist fund market.
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History of the stock exchange

A stock exchange is simply a place where stock is traded. Obviously, in this day and age, the New York Stock Exchange is much, much more than that. Not only is stock traded, but bonds, securities, commodities and countless other things are traded, as well.

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How the Market Affects Gas Prices

A recent downturn in gas prices has come as a welcome relief to most drivers in North America. The timing, however, of the price drop has many people thinking conspiracy theory. A recent poll of Americans showed that a staggering 42 percent of respondents believe that George W. Bush and the ruling Republican administration in Washington lowered gas prices in time for the November 2006 mid-term elections.

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Raising new equity finance in the markets

Owners of companies looking to sell their business or to raise new finance can do so by floating the company on the stock market. It can do so in one of three ways.

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