Stock exchanges of the world
At the moment in the world there are about 200 Stock exchanges of the world. The leading role in the global stock exchange turnover belongs to them. The largest stock exchanges are also a regulator and an indicator of the world economy. The appearance of the stock exchanges due to the presence of the formed and developed trade and consumer or industrial structure. Therefore, it is in countries, which have great development in the middle age and have retained their potential, and are the most famous and largest stock exchange. Returning to the subject of consideration, let us consider the most famous in our time kinds of stock exchanges.
In the United States is 13 stock exchanges, among them there are the largest Stock exchanges of the world - the new York stock exchange (New York Stock Exchange, NYSE). At its turnover accounts for about half of the total turnover of foreign stock exchanges. The new York stock exchange is located in Manhattan, at the address Wall Street, 11. Several consecutive decades it is the symbol of financial power of USA and the whole financial industry. It is for indicators traded at her shares of industrial companies and is determined by the well-known Dow-Jones index (Dow Jones Industrial Average) and not less well-known index NYSE Composite.
Important role in the stock market of the USA plays established in 1911, the American stock exchange (American Stock Exchange, AMEX). Since the nineties of the last century it began to be carried out the first in the world of electronic trading, using wireless terminals.
It is also worth mentioning and the NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation) - over-the-counter market, specialized on shares of high-tech companies (the sphere of production of software, electronics, etc.).
22 stock exchanges operate in major UK cities, such as London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Glasgow. From them, we can highlight the London stock exchange (London Stock Exchange, LSE), which is the international among all the exchanges in the UK. LSE is one of the world's leading financial centers.
In Japan is now 9 Stock exchanges of the world, among which the largest is the Tokyo stock exchange (Tokyo Stock Exchange). This is an old exchange (founded in 1878) with its own rules and traditions. Its main specialization - trade in shares of corporations and financial institutions.
In all of these countries have their own national systems of stock exchanges, based on historical peculiarities, which determine how a particular place of exchange in the exchange system, as well as the functioning of the system as a whole. Well, and what happens with the types of stock exchanges in the us? At the moment in Russia there are more than 10 stock exchanges, but the main trades are performed in only two of them:
The Russian trading system (RTS) was founded in 1995 year and at present is one of the largest stock exchanges of Russia. It was RTS is the generally recognized center of pricing of the bonds and the shares of a wide range of issuers. On this site is served by a large share of foreign portfolio investments in the Russian economy, thanks to which the information about trading on the Russian trading system is the source of the situation of the Russian securities market. But now the main trading volumes gradually move the other leading Russian stock exchange - MICEX.
Moscow interbank currency exchange (MICEX) is the oldest (founded in 1992) and the main one at the moment the stock exchange in Russia. It is a universal trading platform, on which the operations take place on the stock and currency markets. It is the largest exchange in Russia, countries of CIS and Eastern Europe, on the basis of the national system of trades in all major segments of the Russian financial market, namely: on the currency, stock and futures. MICEX is also involved Depository, settlement and clearing services of more than one and a half thousand organizations that are participants in the stock market.
We have considered the basic concepts associated with the stock exchanges. In the following chapters you will be able to find out who exactly can perform operations on the stock exchange. In addition, we touch on an important question for us: as a private person (Internet trader) can perform operations on the stock exchange and who he can help with this.
