Keyword: «stock market»

The paper describes the situation with the public debt of Belarus on the background of recession of Belarusian economy. It reflects changes in the financial situation of Belarusian economy. The decrease in bank interest rates and inflation, stabilization of the exchange rate of Belarusian ruble are analysed. It is shown that the decline in bank interest rates is achieved by the National Bank of the country by administrative means; the stability of the Belarusian ruble is achieved due to the receipt of currency on the market from the population, who try to maintain their accustomed standard of living despite the fall of their income. The necessity of structural reforms of Belarusian economy is considered.

With the development of stock markets, with the new types of professional activities emergence and introduction of new financial instruments, commercial banks began to expand the types of transactions with the tools of the securities market in domestic practice. Financial institutions accumulate huge resource base, performing deposit operations and servicing of customer accounts. Having attracted huge sums of money, the bank must charge and pay interest. Therefore, operations conducted by the bank on stock market by placing surplus funds in securities market tools are a competitive alternative to credit market for funds allocation. Implemented operations with securities are concentrated in the framework of any commercial bank’s investment department that buys and sells them both at the expense of the bank and on behalf of its clients.

The article is devoted to the description of various problems in the sphere of regulation of the financial market in Russia, as well as possible prospects for this regulation

The study contains the results of the efforts to identify the stock markets reaction to the emergence of a pandemic in 2020. For the comparative analysis, daily data on the closing stock indices prices of the Russian Federation and the United States of America were used. Based on the conclusions of the comparative and graphical analysis, the main two hypotheses were tested about the significance of the unique crisis, which led to large-scale changes in the economy of many countries, including the transformation of financial markets. The relevance of this work lies in identifying the potential for building new research chains to detect and analyze other factors that affect the behavior of a wide range of markets in developing and developed countries during economic decline.

Recently, science deals with more and more segments of the financial system that have not been studied previously. One of these areas concerns the study of the amalgamation and takeover deals impact on the reaction of the stock market. The purpose of this work is to reveal the degree of the Russian stock market reaction to the occurrence of amalgamation and takeover deals in the oil / gas and financial sectors. In the course of the study, two hypotheses were considered concerning the influence of these deals on the excess market return. There were facts of insider trading in the oil and gas market and negative reactions from investors to announcements of amalgamation and takeover deals in the financial sector. Based on the results obtained, conclusions were drawn about the potential existence of other significant factors that could have an impact on the cumulative excess return of stock market shares at the time of such deals occurrence.