In this article you will know what are the largest stock exchanges in the world and what are its most important characteristics.
The financial markets they move the world Stock market information always appears in all current news as part of the headlines among the most outstanding news. In the world there are dozens of stock markets, of stock market selectivebut only a few are the ones that really influence the rest and manage to direct the world economy along certain paths.
As you know, A stock market is a market that is based on the buying and selling of stocks, bonds, and securities.. The good state of the stock market is often associated with the economic health of a country, as an indicator of its strength. we see in Dow Jones by Economipedia that this selective is the most relevant in the United States, but there are many others worldwide that can also shake the planetary economy based on their results.
The most important stock markets in the world
The NASDAQ, coexist and compete with the Dow Jones
The Dow Jones is the most widely used index to monitor the value of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the New York Stock Exchange, located on Wall Street. Companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp or Pfizer Incwhich has obtained very relevant profits from the coronavirus vaccine.
Next to the NYSE is the NASDAQ, in Times Square. The initials correspond to National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. It was the first electronic stock market and companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Tesla or Facebook.
Tokyo Stock Exchange
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) It is the largest stock exchange in Japan. It is associated with the London Stock Exchange and others around the world. Its index is nikkei 225 and in it they trade Honda Motor Group, Toyota Motor Corp and Sony Corp; as well as all the major Japanese multinationals.
The group that runs it is Japan Exchange Groupwhich was formed thanks to the union of the osaka stock exchange and the tse in 2013.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange, the most important in China
Without leaving Asia we go to Shanghai, because the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has won the game over two other highly relevant in the Chinese giant, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
The particularity of this stock market is that the values are quoted both in yuan (the yuan is the basic unit of the renminbi, the Chinese currency) and in US dollars.. The shares listed in “A”, in the local currency, are only used for domestic investments, while those listed in “B” meet all the requirements for foreign investments.
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) It is one of the most important stock exchanges in the world and is the most relevant selective in all of Europe. It is one of the oldest in the world and was the most important in the first decades of the 20th century, until the end of the First World War.
LSE belongs to London Stock Exchange Group group that merged this exchange with the Borsa Italiana. It is the selective that welcomes more companies, more than 300 from 70 countries.
Euronext, the most European stock exchange
This market is based in Amsterdam, although it is actually a international stock market, as it covers the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. It is very young, it was founded in the year 2000 and it operates with euros.
Due to its ability to host countries, it has more than 1,300 in its selective companies and dozens of stock indices, although the most popular is Euronext 100. Some well-known companies that are present in this selective are Renault, AXA or Christian Dior.
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange
We cannot finish this review without going to Germany, the most important country in the European context. This stock exchange was founded in 1585, in the middle of the 16th century, but it is true that in the first centuries it only acted as entity that set exchange rates.
Already from the 19th century it began to be one of the first stock exchanges in the world, along with that of London and Paris. After World War II it was consolidated as the most important stock market in Germany. Adidas, BMW, Lufthansa or Deutsche Bank are some of the companies that operate in this selective.
Along with the most important stock markets in the world, there are many other stock markets, such as the Madridup to a total of more than 60 around the world, and they are the places where a good part of the economic movements in the short and medium term on the planet are designed.
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