by Alicia SolísTypes of Services
The information services offered by the stock exchange can be classified in three areas, as follows:
Broker oriented services
Services for investors and the general public
Services with no specific orientation
Quality of the Information
A website for stock exchanges should include, at least, the first seven aspects of the following list and, ideally, all of them.
General information of the stock market: organization, structure, operations, technical aspects, etc.
Stock market data: prices, interest rates, available tools with their negotiation characteristics, amounts negotiated, variations, etc.
Economic and financial indicators: currency exchange, inflation rate, tax rate, etc.
Information about the services and products offered.
Registered brokers.
Senders, including financial situation .
Market news.
Financial concepts.
Laws enforced in the financial system of the country.
Links to related pages: brokers, senders, other stock exchanges, etc.
Statistics and historical information.
Downloading options.
Risk classification.
The guatemalan financial market is in a growing stage. The Values and Goods Registry, which will manage the stock operations, has recently started to function. Nevertheless, most of the stock exchanges still do not think of technology as an investment, but rather as an unnecessary expenditure, due to the low volume of operations that they handle.
The National Stock Exchange does have a website where general stock information, registered brokers and options are presented. The Bank of Guatemala also has plans, on short term, to announce in the Web general information about its open market operations and economic indicators.
In the extent that the financial market develops and the brokers and general public become more technologically updated, the exchanges in Guatemala will offer the services now found in other Latinamerican countries.
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