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SEDOL stands for Stock Exchange Daily Official List, a list of security identifiers used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for clearing purposes. The numbers are assigned by the London Stock Exchange, on request by the security issuer. SEDOLs serve as the National Securities Identifying Number for all securities issued in the United Kingdom and ...
20. 2008-11-24. 1,384.35. 1,480.41. +6.94%. +6.33%. Largest intraday percentage drops. An intraday percentage drop is defined as the difference between the previous trading session's closing price and the intraday low of the following trading session. The closing percentage change denotes the ultimate percentage change recorded after the ...
In Canada, BlackRock Inc. is the largest ETF provider, offering ETFs under the RBC iShares brand name. TSX: XIU – tracks the S&P/TSX 60 Total Return Index. TSX: XIC – tracks the S&P/TSX Capped Composite Index. TSX: XMD – tracks the S&P/TSX MidCap Index. TSX: XCS – tracks the S&P/TSX SmallCap Index. TSX: XEF – tracks the Core MSCI EAFE ...
The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is an electronic communications protocol initiated in 1992 for international real-time exchange of information related to securities transactions and markets. With trillions of dollars traded annually on the NASDAQ alone, financial service entities are employing direct market access (DMA) to ...
An independent third-party software developer utilised the Python bindings to LMDB [65] in a high-performance environment and published, on the technology news site Slashdot, how the system managed to successfully sustain 200,000 simultaneous read, write and delete operations per second (a total of 600,000 database operations per second).
Daily turnover of shares and convertibles in 2009 was US$432 million, $1,035M of bonds and exchange-traded notes (ETNs), $163M of T-bills, and 252,000 options and futures contracts. Total market capitalization at the end of 2009 was $189bn shares and convertibles, $174bn government and corporate bonds, and $23bn T-bills, a total of $386bn.
In July 2005, the daily trading price of the US dollar against the renminbi in the inter-bank foreign exchange market was allowed to float within a narrow band of 0.3% around the central parity [57] published by the People's Bank of China; in a later announcement published on 18 May 2007, the band was extended to 0.5%. [58]
Launched by the Standard Statistics Company in 1926 as the successor to its 1923 233-stock weekly index, the Composite Stock Index was a daily 90-stock index that preceded the S&P 500. Following continual daily closure records from 17.66 in December 1927 to 31.71 in August 1929, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 began a trend of daily closure ...