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  2. Port City Colombo - Wikipedia

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    As a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) governed by the Colombo Port City Economic Commission (CPCEC), Port City Colombo aims to be a business-friendly environment for investors. . The SEZ includes tax incentives and exemptions of up to 25 years for Businesses of Strategic Importance (BSIs), transactions in 16 designated foreign currencies with no capital or exchange controls, 100% foreign ownership ...

  3. S.A.C. Capital Advisors - Wikipedia

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    The company's name 'SAC Capital' derived from Steven A Cohen's initials. [9] The company started trading with $25 million in 1992, grew its assets under management to $16 billion, and became the world's highest-returning hedge fund: SAC averaged annual returns of 30% net of fees under a 3% management fee and 50% performance fee from 1992 to 2013.

  4. Preferred stock - Wikipedia

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    Convertible preferred stock—These are preferred issues that holders can exchange for a predetermined number of the company's common-stock shares. This exchange may occur at any time the investor chooses, regardless of the market price of the common stock. It is a one-way deal; one cannot convert the common stock back to preferred stock.

  5. SWIFT - Wikipedia

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    The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), legally S.W.I.F.T. SC, is a cooperative established in 1973 in Belgium (French: Société Coopérative) and owned by the banks and other member firms that use its service.

  6. Investment fund - Wikipedia

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    An open-end fund is equitably divided into shares which vary in price in direct proportion to the variation in value of the fund's net asset value. Each time money is invested, new shares or units are created to match the prevailing share price; each time shares are redeemed, the assets sold match the prevailing share price.

  7. SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] [6] Designed and developed by American Stock Exchange executives Nathan Most and Steven Bloom, [7] [8] the fund first traded on that market, but has since been listed elsewhere, including the New York Stock Exchange. In February 2024, SPY became the first ETF in history to reach $500 billion in assets under management. [9]

  8. Virtu Financial - Wikipedia

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    Virtu Financial is an American company that provides financial services, trading products and market making services. Virtu provides product suite including offerings in execution, liquidity sourcing, analytics, broker-neutral, multi-dealer platforms in workflow technology and two-sided quotations and trades in equities, commodities, currencies, options, fixed income, and other securities on ...

  9. Stock market data systems - Wikipedia

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    From 1797 to 1811 in the United States, the New York Price Current was first published. It was apparently the first newspaper to publish stock prices, and also showed prices of various commodities. In 1884 the Dow Jones company published the first stock market averages, and in 1889 the first issue of the Wall Street Journal appeared.