What is a Stock Market Crash? A Stock Market Crash is a doubled-digit fall of stocks and eventually resulting in Indices' fall due to fear of the economic situation getting weak. This fear causes panic among investors so they start selling their holdings which crashes the market. Crashes make an impact on the economy. In stock market crashes significant amount of wealth is abolished. In stock prices faces huge fall(s) in a day or days like the one seen in recent times like the COVID - 19 Stock Market Crash, Sensex on 23 March 2021 saw a fall of 3,934 points(13.15%), and Nifty 50 fell 1,135 points(12.98%), Indices in these days saw huge falls because o which they ended at their lowest levels since 2016. But in less than 8 Months markets recovered. COVID-19 Market Crash COVID - 19 Stock Market Crash can be said as one of the biggest stock market crashes in history. Indian Incides(mainly Nifty 50 and Sensex) fell about 33% - 35%. 41 lakh in youth in India lost jobs. The unemployment ...
What is an ETF(Exchange Traded Fund)? After the popularity of mutual funds in the last two decades here came an interesting investing object ETFs. ETFs make an investment in stocks of a particular index in the same weightage as of index which it follows. In an easy way, ETFs can be said as mutual funds that can be traded like stocks. ETFs can be traded at exchanges and the price depends on the buy and sells of units. Eg. Nifty ETF. How does ETFs work? Firstly the AMC buys the stocks with the same weightage as of index which the ETF will be following. Then these shares are divided into small units so that they can be distributed among the investors. And finally, these shares are then allotted to the investors. In case of more demand, the AMC can issue more shares and in case of low demand, the people can sell their shares back to the AMC. And after the allocation is done the AMC(Asset Management Company) which sponsors the ETF will list Read More: What is Nifty 50 and Sensex? How i...