HISTORY OF STOCK EXCHANGE

STOCK
EXCHANGE

11th century France the

Courtiers de change

13th century Van der

Burse

13th century, Venetian

bankers began to trade in
government securities

Pisa, Verona, Genoa and Florence began trading in

government securities during the 14th century

In 1602, the Dutch East India Company issued the

first shares on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange It was
the first company to issue stocks and bonds.

In 1688, the trading of

stocks began on a stock

coffee shops were the first real stock markets

1309 Bruges
Bourse

Ghent and
Amsterdam
copied it

HISTORY OF STOCK EXCHANGE

On May 17, 1792, twenty-four supply

brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement
outside 68 Wall Street in New York
underneath a buttonwood tree .On March
8, 1817, properties got renamed to New

From Switzerland to Japan, all of the worlds major

economic powers have highly-developed stock markets
which are still active today.

The New York Stock Exchange faced its first

legitimate challenger IN 1971 two organizations
National Association of Securities Dealers and
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority created the
NASDAQ stock exchange.

Lahore stock exchange established in 1934.it

was merged into Punjab stock exchange in 1936

Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited (PSX) (formerly: Karachi

Stock Exchange (Guarantee) Limited (KSE) was established
on September 18, 1947. It was incorporated on March 10,
1949. Only five companies were initially listed with a total
paid-up capital of 37 million rupees. The first index
introduced in KSE was based on fifty companies and was
called KSE 50 index