BSE fine-tunes tracking of shares performance
Friday, January 29, 2016
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Effective Monday (February, 01), the BSE says it will discontinue the computation and reporting of a metric called “ Weighted Price”.
The weighted price, which is calculated by computing the volume weighted average price of stocks using the last five trades of a security on the BSE, was being factored in determining the main indices that measure shares’ performance.
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