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Financial Markets: Stock Markets
What you'll learn
This is an introductory course to provide a comprehensive understanding about financial markets, instruments and institutions.
This module covers a broad range of topics necessary to understand financial markets.
The students are expected to understand the basics of financial markets and systems.
The students can apply their learning to understand the real financial market situation or to study more advanced topics in finance.
Requirements
Calculus
Some prior finance knowledge is a plus but not required.
Description
This introductory module forms part of the full course "Financial Markets: From Basics to Advanced." It is designed to provide learners with a clear and structured foundation in financial assets, financial markets, and financial institutions. Students who find this overview valuable are encouraged to continue with the full course, where each topic is explored in greater depth and applied to more advanced financial concepts.The course begins by focusing on equity markets in relation to their characteristics and valuation methods. You'll start learning about ordinary shares, including shareholders' rights to profits and voting, and how dividends and risk differ from other securities. We also cover preference shares, explaining their hybrid nature between equity and debt, and their priority in dividends and capital repayment.We'll explore how to value stocks using models like the constant-growth Dividend Discount Model, and how to calculate total stock returns. You'll also learn about asset risk, and how diversification can reduce or even eliminate unsystematic risk in your portfolio.Finally, we examine the primary and secondary markets—where companies raise finance and where investors trade shares. Understanding these markets is crucial for seeing how prices are determined, how capital flows, and how information reduces costs for everyone involved.Overall, this module establishes the conceptual framework necessary for understanding both basic and advanced topics in financial markets, preparing students for deeper analysis of interest rates, asset valuation, market structures, and financial institutions covered later in the full course.
Who this course is for
Beginner-level finance learners.
Intermediate-level finance learners seeking solid foundational knowledge in finance.
Advanced-level finance learners seeking more intuitive and structured knowledge of finance.
Homepage
https://www.udemy.com/course/financial-markets-stock-markets/