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Workings and nature of the financial markets

Assume that you are really interested in investing in the shares of Nokia Corporation of Finland that is a world leader in the wireless communication. However, before making the investment decision, you might like to learn about company. Take a look of the website of CNN Financial network and collect the information about Nokia, along with the history of the recent stock price and views of the analysts’ about company. Discuss what you learn about company. Also discuss how instantaneous access to the information via internet might affect the workings and nature of the financial markets.

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Since students would have learned from visiting the website, information is quickly available even for the foreign companies such as Nokia. Easy access to international information helps to integrate dismantling barriers and financial markets, to international investment and financing. Integration, though, can help the financial stock in one market to be transferred to the other markets.

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