Effect of Recession on Stock Markets

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:21 AM by Pradeep Mahananda
Recession is the hot topic of the day. So let us see what this recession, stock market crashes etc all about, and how are they connected.

Stocks are parts of ownerships in companies. That forms the basic theme behind a corporation, where in the investor is not expected to be an individual billionaire. The general public can take hold ‘stocks’ to their capacity. So as a whole the company could generate sufficient funds for its operations.

Therefore the stock market reflects the investor’s confidence in the future earnings of all these companies. As most of these companies are US based, their performance in the stock markets also reflects the health of US economy.

Recession in general refers to a poor financial performance of a nation or even on global level, for considerably long periods of time. And these are in general represented by factors such as GDP, capacity utilization, employment, wholesale retail sales and mainly business profits or turnovers as they call.

One of the main causes of this recession is Inflation where in there is a general rise in the prices of goods and services leading to make the public spend less and save more. As stock market is all dependent on the public’s confidence and mind set, the hype which is created due to recession them to cease from investing. As this is a global phenomena there will be significant effect on current and future business cycles.

The ways of coming out of these situations are diverse. Some of them are like local economic development practices by government bodies especially and also on corporate level. Developing strong community networks, economic support agencies etc have shown significant results over the time.

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