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Stock Exchange

Bombay Stock Exchange Limited offers trading in cash and


derivatives, and corporate and government securities, and is the
oldest stock exchange in Asia. The company was formerly known as
The Native Share & Stock Brokers Association. Around 4,800
Indian companies list on the stock exchange and it has a significant
trading volume. Bombay Stock Exchange Limited was founded in
1875 and is based in Mumbai, India.

A stock exchange, share market or bourse is a corporation or mutual


organization which provides facilities for stock brokers and traders,
to trade company stocks and other securities. Stock exchanges also
provide facilities for the issue and redemption of securities, as well
as, other financial instruments and capital events including the
payment of income and dividends.

The securities traded on a stock exchange include: shares issued by companies, unit trusts and
other pooled investment products and bonds. To be able to trade a security on a certain stock
exchange, it has to be listed there. Usually there is a central location at least for recordkeeping,
but trade is less and less linked to such a physical place, as modern markets are electronic
networks, which gives them advantages of speed and cost of transactions. Trade on an exchange
is by members only.

MUMBAI Stock Exchange:

The Stock Exchange, Mumbai


Address
Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers,
Dalal Street,
MUMBAI 400 023.
Tel. (+91-22) 2655581, 2655626, 2655860-61
Fax. (+91-22) 2658121
Tel. (+91-22) 2655665
...

History of Stock Exchanges

In 12th century France the courratiers de change were concerned with managing and regulating
the debts of agricultural communities on behalf of the banks. As these men also traded in debts,
they could be called the first brokers. Some stories suggest that the origins of the term "bourse"
come from the Latin bursa meaning a bag because, in 13th century Bruges, the sign of a purse (or
perhaps three purses), hung on the front of the house where merchants met.

New York Stock Exchange Market


The NYSE can trace its roots to 1792, however it did not become known
as the New York Stock Exchange until 1817 when the organization
drafted a constitution. In early times is composed of 5 rooms which were
used for trading but today the trading center has expanded to much
bigger. It is located in 18 Broad Street, New York City.

It is the biggest stock exchange in the world in the amount of dollars that
flows through it each day and has the second largest in terms of numbers
of company listing, exceeded only by NASDAQ.

The global capitalization of the exchange is $2.1 trillion with $1.7 trillion by companies not
based in the U.S.It works similar to that of an auction. Every company listed trades in one
location. A specialist broker designated by each of the listed companies has the duty of acting as
an auctioneer at the company post.

NYSY Today

When it comes to how much money is traded at any given day, the New York Stock Exchange is
categorized as the largest exchange market in the worldwide scope. It is also regarded as the
vanguard in the equities market in terms of technology and investments coming in from around
the globe. Each day, the New York Stock Exchange is where the largest companies buy and sell
billions of dollars amount of shares.

The New York Stock Exchange comprises of member-brokers who take on the trading of stocks
(buying and selling) for clients, which are financially huge companies based in different parts of
the world. Together with the value of companies that trade on the New York Stock Exchange, it
is estimated to have reach at nearly four trillion dollars. Members of the New York Stock
Exchange buy and sell millions of dollars worth of stock for their costumer every single day.

The New York Stock exchange has 1,366 members, who do all of the trading on behalf of their
clients. These members are actually some of the largest brokerages and companies in the world,
and have a net worth of their own that totals about 4 trillion dollars combined. Only members are
allowed to trade directly at the exchange, so each member handles stock orders for millions of
clients. This means that members are buying and selling billions of shares every day.

Singapore Stock Exchange


The SGX was inaugurated on 1 December 1999, following the merger of
two established and well-respected financial institutions - the Stock
Exchange of Singapore (SES) and the Singapore International Monetary
Exchange (SIMEX).
On 23 November 2000, SGX became the first exchange in Asia-Pacific to be listed via a public
offer and a private placement . Listed on our own bourse, the SGX stock is a component of
benchmark indices such as the MSCI Singapore Free Index and the Straits Times Index. Home to
Singapore's leading listed companies, SGX is also at the forefront of exchanges globally in
attracting international issuers and is rapidly emerging as Asia's offshore risk management centre
for international derivatives.

One Daylife for the Daytrader : Stock Exchange Market

Welcome in the strange world of Day trading. It's 9:30 in the morning. In the basement of the
Place of Canada, street of Gauchetière, Montreal, it is the routine. With signal of the opening of
the North-American stock exchange markets , a bunch of young adults are inclined feverishly
towards their keyboard of computer. And it left for another bogus day! From here until the
closure of the Stock Exchange, at 4PM, this heteroclite band will buy and sell tens of thousands
of actions of companies. Marjorie Landry, 23 years old, coed with the baccalaureat in finance at
the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR), takes seat behind his working station and
opens a meeting of computer.

At once its password accepted, the amount that it can speculate for the day on Stock Exchange
Market appears on one of the screens in front of it. It can then start to make its first transactions
on the title of Intel, on the Stock Exchange of Nasdaq. Its spirit and its must be sharp.

NSE ( National Stock Exchange)


The National stock exchange (NSE), located in Bombay, is
India's first debt market. It was set up in 1993 to encourage stock
exchange reform through system modernization and competition.
It opened for trading in mid-1994. It was recently accorded
recognition as a stock exchange by the Department of Company
Affairs. The instruments traded are, treasury bills, government
security and bonds issued by public sector companies. The
Organisation: The National Stock Exchange of India Limited has
genesis in the report of the High Powered Study Group on
Establishment of New Stock Exchanges, which recommended
promotion of a National Stock Exchange by financial institutions
(FIs) to provide access to investors from all across the country on
an equal footing. Based on the recommendations, NSE was
promoted by leading Financial Institutions at the behest of the
Government of India and was incorporated in November 1992 as
a tax-paying company unlike other stock exchanges in the country.

BSE ( Bombay Stock Exchange)


BSE is the first stock exchange in the country which obtained permanent recognition (in 1956)
from the Government of India under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act 1956. BSE's
pivotal and pre-eminent role in the development of the Indian capital market is widely
recognized. It migrated from the open outcry system to an online screen-based order driven
trading system in 1995. Earlier an Association Of Persons (AOP), BSE is now a corporatised and
demutualised entity incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956, pursuant to
the BSE (Corporatisation and Demutualisation) Scheme, 2005 notified by the Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI). With demutualisation, BSE has two of world's best exchanges,
Deutsche Börse and Singapore Exchange, as its strategic partners.

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