US stock markets are trailblazer in terms of stock trading and volume of total Dollar transactions. The country has the largest stock trading center of the world. As stock trading may lead towards fast making process,investors are now keen to invest in US stock markets for reaping rich dividends. US Stock market influence investors across the world. New York Stock exchange(widely known as NYSE) has been hotbed of stock trading since from 1817.US stock markets attract potential investors who invest in stocks of leading US corporations to maximize financial profits.
US stock markets have a wide spectrum of companies listed with the exchanges that offer stocks. In terms of company listing,NYSE ranks second in the globe. Due to better operational reasons NYSE has merged with Euronext. Euronext primarily deals with information technology and trading platforms. Continuous auction format of trading is carried on in NYSE.US stock markets widely attract foreign investors who wants to invest in stocks,bonds and securities offered by the leading corporations of the planet.
The major categories of industry stocks that are traded at
U.S Stock markets are as follows:
Materials
Capital Goods
Software & Services
Real Estate
Biotechnology & Life Sciences
Insurance
Food Beverage & Tobacco
Consumer Durables & Apparel
The major US stock markets and their locations are are as follows:
Name of the stock exchange |
Location |
American Stock Exchange( AMEX) |
New York City |
Boston Stock Exchange(BSE) |
Boston |
Chicago Stock Exchange |
Chicago |
HedgeStreet |
San Mateo |
New York City (NADAQ) |
New York |
National Stock Exchange (NSX ) |
Chicago |
New York Board of Trade(NYBOT ) |
New York |
New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) |
New York |
NYSE Arca New York City |
New York |
Philadelphia Stock Exchange(PHLX ) |
Philadelphia |
The name of the leading US Based companies that influences growth of stocks offered by US stock markets are mentioned below:
Altria Group Inc
Alcoa Inc
American Express Company
AT&T Inc.
American International Group, Inc.
Boeing Co.
Citigroup, Inc.
Cate rpillar Inc.
General Motors Corporation
General Electric Company
Honeywell Intl Inc
Hewlett-Packard Co.
International Business Machines
Intel Corporation
JP Morgan & Chase & Co
Johnson & Johnson
Merck & Co., Inc.
McDonald's Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Pfizer Inc
The Coca-Cola Company
The Procter & Gamble Company
United Technologies Corporation
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Walt Disney Company
Healthy growth of US based corporations have been a major reason behind high growth of the US stock markets.