The pricing pressures appear to be only in the commodities that are traded on the equity exchanges!
Even if they are, says Ben Van Vliet, a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the equity exchanges will likely shut down the activity soon.
Since listing their equity interests on stock exchanges, these private equity firms have had to become responsive to this new constituency.
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Blackstone, however, has been able to list some of its private equity holdings on stock exchanges in recent months.
Past Facebook transactions have occurred through private equity deals or have traded on exchanges like SecondMarket, which specialize in unregistered, hard-to-trade securities.
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With stocks trading low, several company founders raised enough private equity finance to take their companies off US exchanges and private again.
In equity derivatives, for example, there are the options exchanges and the blossoming industry of electronic-traded funds.
This ETF holds sixty different private equity companies that trade on both the US and global exchanges and yields almost 3%.
Of the Asian stock markets, Korea is the fourth largest in equity trading volume, according to the World Federation of Exchanges.
India has created vibrant and flourishing stock exchanges, vital to the formation of the private equity and venture capital that fund startups.
Foreign stocks that trade on U.S. exchanges are not included in total U.S. equity indices.
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Private equity investors deal in companies and assets that are not listed on stock exchanges, looking for returns of about 20% a year.
In debt exchanges, companies typically ask creditors to swap current debt for equity, new debt with a lesser value that matures later, or a combination of the two.
The products traded on its exchanges serve the global markets for agricultural, credit, currency, emissions, energy and equity indices.
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ADRs aren't immune from currency swings, but they facilitate the trading of foreign equity in the U.S. Such shares spare American investors the expense of trading on foreign exchanges or the hassle of converting currencies.
The volatility of equity markets in recent months has sapped the confidence of investors but it has been a boon for some exchanges.
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