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Who Controls the Stock Market (Network analysis by physicists)

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Their results are startling.

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They have even created a list of global powerbrokers, the companies that are influential in the most stock markets around the world. Here is the top 10

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What it suggests is that the stability of the complex networks that make up our economy is hugely dependent on the ongoing survival of just a handful of companies.

I may be missing something, but it sounds like they are alerting us to the dangerously small number of companies you'll find in a top-ten list.

  > Now James Glattfelder and Stefano Battiston at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
  > Zurich have included these factors in a study of the control and ownership of stockmarkets
  > in 48 countries around the world. Their results are startling.

   1. The Capital Group Companies
   2. Fidelity Management & Research
   3. Barclays PLC
   4. Franklin Resources
   5. AXA
   6. JPMorgan Chase & Co
   7. Dimensional Fund Advisors
   8. Merrill Lynch & Co
   9. Wellington Management Company
  10. UBS

Stock market is Poker tournament for these Companies.

The article is much more alarmist than I feel like the original PDF intends the data to be. It seems like an obvious conclusion that a few well capitalized brokerage and investment firms would be majority stakeholders across several markets.

I'd be more startled if I saw say "xyz US Government holding company" somewhere on the list. But then I'd have to find my tinfoil hat...

Anybody has a link to the original paper?

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.0878v1

Thank you quantumhobbit.

  Ref: arxiv.org/abs/0902.0878: The Backbone of Complex Networks of Corporations: Who is Controlling Whom?

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