{"id":969,"date":"2012-02-28T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2012-02-28T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:56:55","slug":"stock-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/economics\/stock-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\">In the IGCSE Syllabus for Economics we have the following:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">describe the functions of central banks, stock exchanges, commercial banks;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">This post addresses the second of those financial institutions listed, stock exchanges.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">First, this entertaining video produced in 1952 for a US audience does a good job of explaining how a stock exchange works:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0t_nA3gTkSI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">This video from the mid 1990s shows how the New York Stock Exchange had moved on from the 1950s \u2013 what do you think are the main differences?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dy-8iQbO-40?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Then, if you have time, see how interconnected the world\u2019s stock exchange markets are today when crisis hit in 2008 as a major investment bank in Wall Street was suddenly taken off the world finance market as it <em>filed for bankruptcy <\/em>(find out what that phrase means). Two news clips introduce the events \u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z07RZUdEOqc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NIBDVH8fRqc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">A major crisis like this had happened before. For the historian in you, this documentary clip summarises the 1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash \u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RJpLMvgUXe8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the IGCSE Syllabus for Economics we have the following: describe the functions of central banks, stock exchanges, commercial banks; This post addresses the second of those financial institutions listed, stock exchanges. First, this entertaining video produced in 1952 for a US audience does a good job of explaining how a stock exchange works: This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-igcse-economics","tag-individual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}