Market basics
What is Stock market?
Also called: Share market, Equity market
Hinglish mein padhein: Stock market kya hai?
The stock market is where shares of listed companies are bought and sold, mainly on the NSE and BSE in India.
Buyers and sellers place orders through SEBI-registered brokers. The exchange matches them electronically and the clearing corporation makes sure shares and money change hands.
The market has two parts: the primary market, where companies raise money by issuing new shares (such as an IPO), and the secondary market, where investors trade existing shares with each other.
Related terms
- NSE (National Stock Exchange)The National Stock Exchange of India, based in Mumbai, is India's largest stock exchange by trading volume and home of the Nifty 50 index.
- BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange)BSE, founded in 1875 in Mumbai, is Asia's oldest stock exchange. Its benchmark index is the Sensex.
- SEBISEBI is India's securities market regulator. It writes the rules for exchanges, brokers, mutual funds, advisers and listed companies.
- IPO (Initial public offering)An IPO is when a private company sells shares to the public for the first time and lists them on a stock exchange.
- Market hoursNSE and BSE equity markets trade from 9:15 am to 3:30 pm IST, Monday to Friday, except exchange holidays, with a pre-open session from 9:00 am.