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This page lists the major stock exchanges of the world, including the London Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, NYSE, Euronext and Bovespa.
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The London Stock Exchange is the most important exchange in Europe and one of the largest in the world.
It lists around 2,500 companies from 68 different countries, making it the most international of all exchanges. The LSE is split into two main sections; the Main Market and the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
The Main Market is solely for established high-performance companies and has strict listing requirements. Over 1,300 of the LSE's company listings trade on the Main Market with a total market cap of nearly £4 trillion.
The Alternative Investment Market on the other hand trades in small-caps, or new enterprises with high growth potential. Nearly 1,100 companies are listed on the AIM, with a total market cap of over £63 billion.
Other smaller sections include the Professional Securities Market (PSM) and Specialist Fund Market (SFM) account for around 60 companies, with a total market cap of about £6.5 billion.
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The New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE, can trace its roots back to 17 May 1792 with the Buttonwood Agreement. The agreement was signed by 24 New York stockbrokers in the shade of a buttonwood tree and marked the founding of the New York Stock & Exchange Board. The exchange operated out of the Tontine Coffee House until 1817.
The combined market cap of all stocks listed on the NYSE exceeds $16trillion. This includes companies like Boeing, IBM, McDonalds, Verizon and WalMart.
The New York Stock Exchange building is located on New York's Wall Street, a street that has become synonymous with the stock market.
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The NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a major US stock exchange. Founded in 1971, NASDAQ is the second largest stock exchange by market capitalisation in the world, the largest being the NYSE.
The NASDAQ is owned by the NASDAQ OMX Group, which also owns eight other exchanges located in Europe and Scandinavia. Over 2,600 companies are listed on the NASDAQ. These are generally companies that develop and manufacture technnology products - like the NASDAQ itself (NASDAQ:NDAQ), listed on its own market since 2002.
The total market cap of all stocks listed on the NASDAQ was around $6 trillion at the start of 2014. $800 to 900 billion worth of stock is traded monthly.
The American Stock Exchange (or AMEX) is the third-largest stock exchange in the USA based on traded volume. It is situated in New York and the majority of trades occurring on the exchange are on small-cap stocks, ETFs and derivatives.
NYSE Euronext acquired AMEX in 2008 and consequently AMEX became NYSE Amex Equities in 2009. In 2010, it's name was once again changed to NYSE MKT LLC.
Trading hours for NYSE MKT are weekdays, 9:30am – 4pm (Eastern Time)
FTSE Indices are provided and calculated by the FTSE Group, giving indications of full market and individual sector performance for many stock markets around the world.
Markets covered by the FTSE include the London Stock Exchange (the FTSE 100 being the main index), Borsa Italiana (FTSE MIB) and the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX 20).
FTSE stands for Financial Times Stock Exchange, a hint to its history, tracable back to 1935 and the Financial News 30 index. The index was printed daily in the Financial News newspaper, until the paper merged with the Financial Times in 1945 and it was renamed the Financial Times 30 (or FT 30) index.
There are now over 600 FTSE indices available in real-time, with some 200,000 others calculated less frequently.
Indices cannot be traded directly, however there are ways for investors to make money from their movements, for instance via spreadbetting or by trading ETFs based on index prices.
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BATS Chi-X Europe is a pan-European Recognised Investment Exchange (RIE). It is the largest European equity exchange in terms of market share and value traded. It is based in London, England.
BATS Chi-X Europe came into existence in 2011, after the merger between the two Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) called BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe.
Currently BATS Chi-X Europe offers trading in around 3,600 securities in 15 of Europe's markets, with continuous trading for Chi-X Europe takes place between 8am-4:30pm (London Time).
Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted average of 30 of the largest companies in the US.
It's one of the oldest and most significant indexes in the world. Traded on the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange DJIA includes the companies like Boeing, Microsoft, and Coca- Cola.
Euronext is an exchange which operates out of Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Lisbon and Paris.
Euronext has around 1,300 listings, providing cash and derivatives markets totalling approximately €2.6 Trillon market capitalization. These include: equities, ETFs, warrants and certificates, bonds, derivatives, commodities and indices. It also produces listing market data, custody and settlement services.
Trading hours for Euronext are weekdays, 09:00-17:30 CET
The Forex market is a global decentralized financial market for the currencies exchange. It is geographically dispersed and as a result attracts traders from all over the world. In addition to that it allows for trading 24 hours a day except on weekends providing huge volume and liquidity. Being the largest asset class its estimated daily trade is over £3.9 trillion.
The main players of FOREX market are Commercial Banks, Governments and other financial institutions. Dealers and individuals are also playing a big role in this market.
The foreign exchange transaction is the process of buying currency of one country with the currency of another country. Currency traders buy and sell currencies in the hope of profiting when one or the other going either up or down. Most of the Forex transactions are speculative which means companies or individuals are not planning to actually deliver the currency at the end. Instead they are solely speculating on the movement of that particular currency.
All transactions are conducted Over – The – Counter (OTC) which means the transactions are made via computer networks among traders around the world.
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The Toronto Stock Exchange, also known as TSX, is the largest market in Canada. It is owned by the TMX Group, which also owns the TSX Venture Exchange.
The exchange was founded back in 1861 and has around 1,500 listings as of 2014. It has a market capitalization of approximately CA$2.5 trillion.
The TSX is mainly used for trading equities, but also lists other securities such as split share corporations, exchange traded funds, investment funds and income trusts. The market is recognized as a leader in the mining and oil & gas sectors, having more companies form these sectors than any other stock exchange in the world.
The exchange operates with a normal trading schedule from 9:30am to 4:00pm Eastern Timewith a post market trading period from 4:15pm until 5:00pm ET.
Normal operating days are from Monday to Friday.
Primarily for smaller or emerging companies, the TSX Venture Exchange (also known as the TSXV) is a Canadian stock exchange based in Calgary, Alberta.
The market was previously known as the Canadian Venture Exchange or CDNX prior to its acquisition by the TMX group, which also owns the Toronto Stock Exchange.
All trading on TSX Venture is done electronically; the exchange does not have an actual trading floor.
The stock market has a combined market capitalization of around CA$61 billion.
The TSX Venture Exchange's trading hours are 9:30am to 4pm ET, with a post-market sessions running from 4:15pm until 5pm.
Normal operating days are from Monday to Friday, except for announced holidays in advance.
The DAX (also known as the DAX 30) is an index which represents 30 of the largest, most liquid German stocks listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It was started in 1987 with a based value of 1,000.
The DAX derives its prices from the Xetra Trading System, and is calculated as a combination of index weightings and volume traded.
It is calculated weekdays between 9am and 5:45pm CET.
The Athens Stock Exchange (ASE or ATHEX) is a stock exchange situated in Athens, Greece. It was subsidiary of Hellenic Exchanges S.A. with which it merged in December 2013.
ATHEX provides markets for securities(including stocks, bonds and ETFs), derivatives, Alternative market, carbon market (for European Union Allowances), as well as Over The Counter (OTC).
Trading hours for ATHEX are 10am – 5pm (GMT+3)
The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is the world's largest commodity futures exchange operated by CME Group of Chicago.
Trading is conducted through two divisions: the NYMEX division, which is home to the energy, platinum and palladium markets, and the COMEX division where metals like gold, silver and copper are traded.
NYMEX is often referred to as "The Merc".
COMEX, previously known as Commodity Exchange Inc, is a commodities exchange which is own owned by the CME Group.
The COMEX is the world's largest physical exchange which provides marketplaces for trading futures and options in base metals (e.g. copper and aluminium) and precious metals (e.g. Gold, Silver and Platinum).
Normal trading hours on the COMEX are unique for each futures contract, but generally the electronic trading takes place between Sunday- Friday 18:00 – 17:15 ET
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (also known as The CME, or The Merc) is the second-largest futures and options exchange in the world and the largest in the United States. It operates out of Chicago in the United States, and is a part of the CME Group.
It's trading volume consists primarily of futures on interest rates, currency, equities, indices, and agricultural product.
For the first time, there are truly comparable indexes across Europe.
All the Cboe Europe Equity Benchmarks have the same starting point of 10,000 with the same rules and methodology and use the same price and corporate action data—making them ideal for accurate comparison and trend analysis.
Cboe's Equity Benchmarks are a set of 57 European indexes including single country and regional indexes.
For more information see https://www.cboe.com/indexeurope.
A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions and to control the creation of additional units of the currency. Cryptocurrencies are a subset of alternative currencies, or specifically of digital currencies.
Bitcoin became the first decentralized cryptocurrency in 2009. Since then, numerous cryptocurrencies have been created. These are frequently called altcoins, as a blend of bitcoin alternative. Bitcoin and its derivatives use decentralized control as opposed to centralized electronic money/centralized banking systems. The decentralized control is related to the use of bitcoin's blockchain transaction database in the role of a distributed ledger.
The BM&F BOVESPA (or Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias & Futuros de São Paulo) is a securities, commodities and futures exchange located in São Paulo, Brazil. It is one of the largest exchanges in the world in terms of market capitalization, and the largest exchange in Latin America.
BM&F BOVESPA was created in 2008 as a result of a merger of BM&F (Brazil's main dervative exchange) and Bovespa (Brazil's main stock exchange). It is no the sole securities exchange in Brazil.
Trading hours for BM&F Bovespa are weekdays, 10am-5pm (GMT -3)
The BM&F BOVESPA (or Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias & Futuros de São Paulo) is a securities, commodities and futures exchange located in São Paulo, Brazil. It is one of the largest exchanges in the world in terms of market capitalization, and the largest exchange in Latin America.
BM&F BOVESPA was created in 2008 as a result of a merger of BM&F (Brazil's main dervative exchange) and Bovespa (Brazil's main stock exchange). It is now the sole securities exchange in Brazil.
Trading hours for BM&F Bovespa are weekdays, 10am-5pm (GMT -3)
Known in Japanese as 株式会社東京商品取引所 and often abbreviated to TOCOM, the Tokyo Commodities Exchange is unusual amongst exchanges in that it is a non-profit organisation.
The exchange was founded in 1984 with the merger of the Tokyo Gold, Rubber and Textile exchanges. Gold and rubber contracts are still traded, but textiles are no longer listed on TOCOM.
The exchange has expanded in recent years to include futures contracts for Palladium, Platinum and Silver, as well as Crude Oil, Gasoline, Kerosene and selected softs including Corn, Soybeans and Sugar.
TOCOM also lists Azuki futures (sometimes spelt Adzuki), a bean not well known in the west used in Japanese, Korean and Chinese cookery and confections.
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The Frankfurt Stock Exchange, also known as Börse Frankfurt, Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse, or simply FWB is Germany's primary stock exchange, the world's tenth largest with a combined market cap for its listed companies of around €16 trillion.
The Borsa Italiana (or BIT) is a stock exchange located in Milan, Italy. The exchange also goes by the name Milan Stock Exchange or sometimes Piazza Affari (“Business Square”). Following a merger in 2007, the Borsa Italiana became a part of the London Stock Exchange group, and is Italy's largest stock market.
The BIT has 5 parts which are: 1) The MTA (Mercato Telematico Azionario) which is where shares, convertible bonds, warrants and option rights are traded; 2) The STAR, which is a segment of the MTA dedicated to companies with a market cap of less than €1 Billion; 3) MTA International which is dedicated to non Italian issued shares with existing listing on other EU regulated markets; 4) The MIV (Market for Investment Vehicles), which lists investment vehicles such as closed-end funds, REICs and SIVs.
Trading hours for the BIT are weekdays, 9:00am-5:25pm (local time)
Borsa Italiana is the main Italian stock exchange. The Exchange is based in Milan and is also known as "Piazza Affari" from the square where it's located. Almost 300 companies are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange. In 2007 Borsa Italiana became part of the London Stock Exchange Group. The main index of the Milan Stock Exchange is called FTSE MIB and it measure the performances of the 40 highest capitalisation listed on the exchange.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange or TSE for short is largest stock exchange in Japan. It has 2,414 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of £2.63 trillion as of April 2015.
The exchange hosts the largest and best-known Japanese giants with a global presence, including Toyota, Honda and Mitsubishi.
The acronym TSE for the Tokyo Stocks Exchange should not be confused with Canada's Toronto Stock Exchange which is know as TSX.
The Australian Securities Exchange, often called the Australian Stock Exchange or simply ASX is Australia's main stock exchange.
The combined market cap of ASX listed companies is around AU$1.6trillion, one of the world's largest.
The exchange is owned and operated by ASX Group.
The trading hours for the ASX are 10am until 4pm AEST, with a pre-market session running from 7am until 10am and a short auction between 4:10pm and 4:12pm at the end of the day.
The market opens daily from Monday to Friday except for the holidays announced by the organization.
The Bolsa Mexicana de Volores (or BMV, or The Mexican Stock Exchange) is a stock exchange operating from Mexico City, Mexico. It is the only Stock Exchange in Mexico, and is the second largest stock exchange in Latin America.
BMV provides a market for securities, including: stocks, debentures, government and corporate bonds, warrants and other derivatives.
Trading hours for the BMV are weekdays: 8:30am-3pm (local time). for the capital markets; and 8am to 2:30pm (local time) for debt instruments.
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) is the national stock exchange of the Philippines. It's one of the longest established stock exchanges in Southeast Asia, having been set up in 1927. The PSE currently has more than 260 listed companies with a total market capitalization of more than USD$300 billion.
The PSE Composite Index, commonly known as the PSEi, is the main index of the Philippine Stock Exchange. The PSEi, made up of the thirty largest PSE companies, is a closely watched index in the Philippines, and is also seen as one of the wider indicators on the general state of the Philippine economy.
NEX Exchange is the new name for ISDX (formerly Plus Markets and OFEX). However, it’s more than just a name change and NEX believes that it offers a compelling alternative for companies thinking about coming to the public market. In addition to bringing equity offerings to NEX Exchange, SMEs can also raise and admit debt onto the platform. There is big investor appetite for debt products at the moment, where the principal sum is protected and yields are reasonable, especially in the current, low-interest environment.
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As well as the ability to see Level 2 data for the 504 AIM securities also registered for trading on our NEX Exchange Trading segment, NEX is home to 85 primary listings, including bonds and debentures which investors won’t find on AIM and household names such as Shepherd Neame, Chapel Down & Adnams.
With the same regulatory benefits as AIM, retail investors can benefit from CGT, IHT and Stamp Duty reliefs and a number of Growth Market securities are EIS eligible.
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