Did you know... Facts related to the markets

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Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in India has the highest number of listed companies in the world with an estimated 5,689 companies.

 

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The Dutch East India Company was the first company to go public on the world's first stock exchange.

making it a first listed mutli-national company. Although East India company was formed year before, it wasn't listed that time.

Inflation adjusted, Dutch East India mkt cap would have been $7.9 trillion!

 

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wow, there are so many facts about market !!

In 1954, economist Armen Alchian was able to figure out what the secret fuel was for the newly developed hydrogen bomb just by looking at the share prices of chemical suppliers on the stock market.

Armen A. Alchian conducted the world's first event study to infer the fuel material used in the manufacturing of the newly-developed hydrogen bomb. Successfully identifying lithium as the fusion fuel using only publicly available financial data, the paper was seen as a threat to national security and was immediately confiscated and destroyed.
source : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929119914000546