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World Share Market

A comprehensive study on the world share market or the stock exchanges of the world gives an idea on the business and trade going on the international level and also on economic condition of the corresponding country.

World Share Market Functionalities

A stock market gives the idea of a market where the trading of company shares, stocks and bonds take place on a large scale along with issuing and redemption of the securities and other financial instruments. Shares offered by the companies, pooled investment products like unit trusts and bonds are the securities that are generally traded in the share markets. In order to trade certain security on a share market, the security has to be listed in that share market.

The global share market participants may range from the small individual stock investors to the large-scale hedge fund investors. One type of the stock market may include the traders going for verbal bids while the other type may be virtual where a network of computers trade via electronic server.
Over last couple of years following an immense growth on electronic communication, the virtual share market is now growing phenomenally; the advantage being over the cost and speed of transaction.

Some major roles of world share market are
  • Raising Capital for Companies
  • Facilitating the Company Growth
  • Mobilizing Savings for Investment
  • Corporate Governance
  • Redistribution of Wealth
  • Acting as a Barometer of the Economy
  • Government Capital-Raising for Development Projects
  • Creating Investment Opportunities for Small Investors
The Twenty Largest Stock Exchanges by the market Capitalization as listed on July 12, 2007 by the World Federation of Exchanges are:



Stock ExchangeMarket Capitalization (in trillion USD)
NYSE Euronext $20.692
Tokyo Stock Exchange $4.679
NASDAQ $4.163
London Stock Exchange $4.023
Hong Kong Stock Exchange $2.124
Toronto Stock Exchange $1.985
Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse) $1.973
Shanghai Stock Exchange $1.738
Madrid Stock Exchange (BME Spanish Exchanges) $1.515
Australian Securities Exchange $1.324
Swiss Exchange $1.318
Nordic Stock Exchange Group OMX (Copenhagen,
Helsinki, Iceland, Stockholm, Tallinn,
Riga and Vilnius Stock Exchanges)
$1.296
Milan Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana) $1.123
Bombay Stock Exchange $1.005
Korea Exchange $1.001
São Paulo Stock Exchange $0.981
National Stock Exchange of India $0.962
Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange $0.86 (January 2007)    
Johannesburg Securities Exchange $0.802
Taiwan Stock Exchange $0.610


Source: World Federation of Exchanges

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