Wall street legend william J O’ Neil wrote which of these runaway bestsellers ?

Ans. How to make money in stocks

Which is the main hedge fund involved in the recent MF scam that rocked wall street ?
Ans. Canary partners

World;s 1st banking family arose in early 18th century . what was the family called ?
Ans. Rothschild

Which was the 1st Indian bank to go global ?

Ans. Bank of india

Who among the following is the single largest stakeholder in tata sons ?
Ans. Pallonji shapoorji mistry

The 1st ETF on sensex , was launched by ?

Ans. Prudential ICICI mutual fund

NSE terminals are spread across how many cities in India ?

Ans. 345

How many companies are currently listed on NSE ?

Ans. 873

Options which can be exercised anytime between the day of purchase & the day of expiry
are called ?
Ans. American

Which is the oldest stock exchange in world ?

Ans. The stock exchange ,Mumbai

Which stock has been in dow jones industrial average since it started ?
Ans. General electric

In which year did NSE commence trading in equities ?

Ans. 1994

A type of funding that falls between equity and debt, it offers a higher return than secured
loans although the long-term return is lesser than what an equity instrument could offer.
What's the term for such funding?
Ans.mezzanine finance

The proposed common trading platform by the Federation of Indian Stock Exchanges,
which represents 21 regional stock exchanges is called
Ans. Indonext
Martha Stewart has been charged with insider trading of ImClone Systems' shares, just
before the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refused to consider ImClone's
application to market a cancer drug. Can you name the drug?
Ans.erbitux

Which bank, established in 1895 in Lahore, uses a Hindi letter as its symbol?
Ans. PNB !!!

Nick Leeson, the infamous Barings Bank trader, created a bogus error account to hide his
losses while trading from Singapore, and named it with a five-digit number that is
considered lucky by the Chinese. What's the number?
Ans. 88888

The dictionary meaning of this word is 'to be on both sides of (something)'. In the
financial world, though, the term refers to a strategy wherein the investor holds a position
in both call and put options with the same strike price. Can you name the term?
Ans. Straddle

Rana Kapoor, Ashok Kapur and Rabo Bank International are promoting which bank?
(Clue: Think positive!)
Ans.YES bank

UK's oldest merchant bank collapsed in 1995 and was bought for £ 1 by the Dutch
banking and insurance group ING. Can you name the bank?
Ans. Barings bank

The origin of the New York Stock Exchange can be traced back to a 1792 agreement,
which is named after the tree on Wall Street under which the brokers used to gather and
trade. What is the agreement called? (Clue: A recently started financial column in The
Economistis named after the tree too.)
Ans. Buttonwood agreement

Which is the world’s 1st stock exchange ?

Ans. Antwerp stock exchange

Which is the largest merger in the TMT field ?

America online & time warner
Which is the india’s oldest entertainment conglomerate ?
Ans. Rajshri productions

Which was the 1st private mutual fund company in India & with which fund has merged
with ?
Ans. Kothari Pioneer with Franklin Templeton

Which is the largest company in terms of market capitalization ?

Ans. ONGC

When did the benchmark sensex turn into a free-float based index ?
1 september 2003

How many times has RBI cut the bank rate this year ?
Ans. Once

Which best selling book warns its readers ,“ hasty speculation rings poverty “ ?
Ans. The bible

What do you call a stock market trend that is neither bullish nor bearish ?
Ans. Chicken market

What do you call stock pricing in shares that have already hit the bottom but still have
some bounce left ?
Ans. Cigarbutt hunting

How many stock exchanges are there in India – at least on paper ?

Ans. 23

what does ‘beta’ measure modern portfolio theory ?

Ans. Systematic risk

What is the name of the stock exchange housed in jeejeebhoy towers ?

Ans. The stock exchange,Mumbai

The net worth of a company is

Ans. Share capital plus reserves

The stock price divided by net profits per share is called the
Ans. Price earnings ratio

On which of the following exchanges is the S&P composite index not traded ?
Ans. Tokyo stock exchange

Which of the following exchanges has the ad-line “ the world puts stock on us “
Ans. New york stock exchange
What is the name of the multicommodity exchange promoted by the National Stock
Exchange, ICICI Bank, NABARD and LIC?
Ans. NCDEX

Popular in the '80s in the US, what were the high-yield speculative stocks, especially one
issued to finance an intended takeover, called?
Ans. Junk bonds

WorldCom is in the thick of controversial news for overstating profits of over US$3.8
billion over the past 5 quarters. Name their auditors ?
Ans. Arthur Anderson

Which company pioneered the concept of discount brokerage in the late 1970s, and also
led the online investment revolution in the 1990s?
Ans. Charles schwab

Which two banks founded by James Wilson in Britain in 1853 and John Patterson in
South Africa in 1862 merged in 1969 to form one of world's largest banks?
Ans. The chartered bank & standard bank

What is the name of US President Abraham Lincoln's Treasury Secretary after whom
John Thompson named the bank he founded in 1877, as a tribute to his efforts in getting
the National Bank Act passed in 1863 and 1864?
Ans. Salmon.p.chase after whom chase national bank was named

In India in which city NASDAQ is located

ANS – BANGALORE

A type of ordinary privately issued shares in the US , which is not registered with SEC .
what it is called?
ANS – LETTER STOCK

Which successful investor is popularly known as "The Oracle of Omaha"? And his
famous quote is "Rule No.1: Never loss money, Rule No.2: Never forget the Rule
No.1"

Ans. Warren buffet

Which country’s foreign market is known as ‘Rembrandt market’ ?

Ans. The Netherlands

Which organisation's base line is: “The world's local bank”?

Ans. HSBC

Easy! Which bank was in charge of the issue of the Government's Resurgent India Bonds,
which were issued in the aftermath of the Pokhran nuclear explosions?

Ans. State bank of India

Easy! 1999: Seattle; 2001: Doha: 2003:?

Ans.Cancun(venues of WTO meet for respective years )

The last week of July saw for the first time action from a private equity fund in the
disinvestment process. A London-based firm acquired the Punjab Government's nearly
23.5 per cent stake in Punjab Tractors. Can you name the firm?

Ans. CDC capital partners

The '70s proved the Phillips Curve wrong. The Phillips Curve had all along showed an
inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation, but in that decade the two
parameters went together. A specific term emerged from such a phenomenon, which is. ..?

Ans. Stagflation(a combination of stagnation & inflation)

The origin of this bank can be traced back to the Bhavnagar Darbar Bank formed in 1902.
How do we know this bank today?

Ans. State bank of saurashtra (which became an associate of SBI in 1960 )

Easy! Which organisation's official name is International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development?

Ans. World bank

The Native Stock and Share Brokers Association was formed in 1887. How do we know
it today?

Ans. BSE

This insurance company was named CGNU after the merger of CGU and Norwich Union
in May 2000, though it was rechristened within a couple of years. What's its name now?
Ans. Aviva

How many groups companies does the TATA group have ?

Ans. 80

Which was the 1st PSU to be divested by the rulling NDA combine ?

Ans. Lagan jute machinery company

Which BPO company did the aditya birla group acquire ?

Ans. Transworks

When did the world bank come into being ?

Ans. July 1944

Who was the 1st Indian RBI governor ?

Ans. Sir chintaman D Deshmukh

With a presence in 27 countries , the name of which company means “three oceans “

Ans. Sanyo

Harvard business school conducted a special case study on how this person was able to
build up a Rs 500-crore business empire without a single ad or promotional campaign .
who was he ?

Ans. Lakhubhai pathak

With which US financial organisation has Tata Finance tied up for operations in India in
the financial services sector

Ans. TD waterhouse

Where is the oldest stock exchange in the world, set up as early as 1602, located?

Ans. Amsterdam stock exchange

Which international bank has embarked on `Project Millennium'' aimed at getting 1

billion customers across the world by the year 2010?
Ans. Citibank

Although stock options are an old concept in the US, which company is credited with
having brought them back into vogue after it first launched the scheme in 1978, and
which made its CEO one of the highest paid executives through the 1980s?

Ans.Toy’s ‘ R’Us , an initiative which made its CEO charles lazarus highest earning
CEOs in 1980s