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Most major cap-weighted indexes are rebalanced quarterly, semi-annually, or annually. This rebalancing consists of adding and removing securities based on market cap fluctuations throughout the quarter.  It’s up to the index provider to make and publicize these changes, usually at or in...

A British tobacco company, Dutch paint company, California-based dermatological company, and Maryland-based regional bank were among the securities that experienced the largest trading volume increases in September. Nearly 900 million shares—$4.9 billion worth—traded hands on the OTCQX...

“In reasonable economic times community banks are pretty much cash flow machines,” according to Tim Melvin, author of The Community Bank Investor Newsletter and Banking On Profit. Melvin made that remark at the OTCQX Community Bank Virtual Investor Conference held in late-September,...

We all know how unprepared Americans are as a whole are for retirement. Just google “retirement crisis.” The statistics are ugly. There are too many reasons to list as reasons why many Americans do not have enough money saved for retirement. Stagnant wages coupled with rising life...

This article is from Benzinga’s Partner Content team Roughly 5.7 billion shares traded on the OTCQX Best Market in August, the most transparent of OTC Markets’ three tiers. That volume was 3.5x the volume on the second tier, the OTCQB Venture Market, which had 1.6 billion shares trade...

Tim Melvin, author of Banking On Profit and The Community Bank Investor Newsletter on Marketfy (Benzinga’s sister platform), will be giving a presentation Thursday at 9 am ET on strategies he uses for investing in community banks. The presentation is part of the OTCQX Community Bank...

It’s not a secret that the U.S. stock market is dominated by institutions. As recently as 2017, 80% of the S&P 500 was owned by institutional investors, according to Bloomberg. But the large gap between institutional and retail investors—in everything from technology, to market...

This article is from Benzinga’s Partner Content team For many foreign companies that are publicly traded (or one day would like to be), cross-trading in the U.S. is a critical component of accessing U.S. investors. And it should come as no surprise as to why. The U.S. is by far the largest...

This article is from Benzinga’s Partner Content team The U.S. equities universe is a lot larger than most people realize. While there are over 6,000 stocks that trade on the NYSE and Nasdaq—the two largest U.S. exchanges—U.S. investors actually have access to over 10,000...

This post is from Benzinga's Partner Content team As August winds down, so too does the second quarter earnings season. So, we thought we’d take a look at what some of the companies with securities that trade on OTC Markets had to say about their June quarters. For the sake of brevity...

This post is from Benzinga's Partner Content team More than 4 billion shares—or $7.7 billion—exchanged hands on the OTCQX Best Market and OTCQB Venture Market in July. These were the most active individual securities on each of the top tiers of OTC Markets.  OTCQX Market ...

There are over 10,000 different securities from 100 countries that trade on the three tiers of OTC Markets.  We use the term “security” as a catch-all because it can refer to a variety of financial instruments. Even though all these instruments give investors some amount of...

With the second half of 2019 well underway, let’s take a look back at 10 numbers that defined the activity on OTC Markets through the first six months of the year.  1) 187 The number of securities that joined the OTCQX and OTCQB Markets in the first half of the year—60 joined...

The SEC’s adoption of amendments to Regulation A, known as “Reg. A+”, in 2015 made it easier for small companies to raise money and access the secondary markets. Born out of the 2012 JOBS Act, the revamped Regulation A was meant to provide a streamlined path for companies to raise...

There are over 10,000 securities traded on the OTC Markets, 1,430 of which trade on the market’s top two tiers, OTCQX and OTCQB. But when it comes to the most actively traded of those securities, there is a clear top eight. As of the end of June, there were eight securities—four on...