World stock markets
At the moment all over the world are about 200 exchanges. The leading role in the global exchange turnover belongs to them. Major stock exchanges are also a regulator and indicator of the global economy. The emergence of stock markets due to the presence of formed and developed commercial and consumer or industrial structure. Therefore, it is in countries that have had great development in the Middle Age, and retained their potential, and are the most famous and largest stock exchange. Returning to the subject of review, we consider the most famous in our time, the types of stock exchanges.
In the U.S. there are 13 stock exchanges, among them are the largest in the world - New York Stock Exchange (New York Stock Exchange, NYSE). On its turn accounts for about half of the total turnover of foreign stock exchanges. New York Stock Exchange is located in Manhattan, at Wall Street, 11. For several decades, it is a symbol of financial power and the entire U.S. financial industry. It is traded on indicators of her shares of industrial companies and is determined by well-known Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Industrial Average) and less well-known index of NYSE Composite.
The important role of the U.S. stock market has set up in 1911, the American Stock Exchange (American Stock Exchange, AMEX). Since the nineties of last century it began to be the world's first electronic trading using wireless terminals.
Also worth mentioning, and NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation) - OTC market, which specializes in stocks of technology companies (software industry, electronics, etc.).
22 stock exchanges operating in major cities of UK such as London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Glasgow. From them we can distinguish the London Stock Exchange (London Stock Exchange, LSE), which is the most international of all exchanges of Great Britain. LSE - one of the world's leading financial centers.
Japan is now nine stock exchanges, among which the largest is the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Tokyo Stock Exchange). This is the old stock exchange (founded 1878) with its own rules and traditions. Its main specialty - stock trading corporations and financial institutions.
In all these countries have their own national system of exchanges, based on the historical features that define a specific place in the stock exchange system and the functioning of this system as a whole.
