Top 50 Biggest Stock Exchanges and Major Indexes

A STOCK EXCHANGE is a form of exchange which provides services for stock brokers and traders to buy or sell stocks, bonds, and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for issue and redemption of securities and other financial instruments, and capital events including the payment of income and dividends. Securities traded on a stock exchange include stock issued by listed companies, unit trusts, derivatives, pooled investment products and bonds. Stock exchanges often function as "continuous auction" markets, with buyers and sellers consummating transactions at a central location, such as the floor of the exchange.

A STOCK INDEX or stock market index is a measurement of the value of a section of the stock market. It is computed from the prices of selected stocks (typically a weighted average). It is a tool used by investors and financial managers to describe the market, and to compare the return on specific investments. An index is a mathematical construct, so it may not be invested in directly. But many mutual funds and exchange-traded funds attempt to "track" an index (see index fund), and those funds that do not may be judged against those that do.

Stock Exchange News, Reviews & Resources

• 6 held over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange - "The Met Police said information suggested activists from the Palestine Action group were intending to target the exchange on Monday. The force said it was believed those involved were planning to cause damage and "lock on" in an effort to stop the building opening for trading."
• 2024: Stocks Are in a Bull Market. What Does That Mean? - "It doesn’t mean stocks will continue to rise indefinitely, but it does reflect a generally optimistic outlook on Wall Street."
• A healthier option than the Magnificent 7? Meet Europe's 'Granolas' - "Dubbed the 'Granolas,' those 11 companies accounted for 60% of the gains on Europe's benchmark stock index over the past 12 months. They have even slightly outperformed the Magnificent 7 over a longer period, according to Goldman Sachs. The Granolas - an acronym coined by the bank in 2020 to describe Europe's biggest companies by market capitalization at the time - comprise GSK, Roche, ASML, Nestlé, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, L’Oréal, LVMH, AstraZeneca, SAP and Sanofi."
• All of the World’s Stock Exchanges by Size - Visual Capitalist.
• Asia-Pacific Stock INDEXES - Bloomberg.
• Big Mac Index - The Economist.
• Biggest Company in the World, List of Top-10 - "Apple Inc, with the market capitalization value of $2.974 trillion holds the title of the biggest company in the world. Know about the top-10 largest companies in the world."
• Biggest Stock Exchanges In The World - WorldAtlas.com.
• Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames - "Denmark's historic old stock exchange building in the centre of Copenhagen has been engulfed by fire."
• Dividend Yield Data Live For FTSE 100 - "Dividend Yield Live."
• Dow Hits 29,000 For First Time, Despite Sluggish Jobs Report And Ongoing Tensions With Iran - Forbes.
• Dow Plunged 1,000 Points This Week After Reddit Traders Stormed The Stock Market - What Happens Next? - "Despite blowout corporate earnings and more solid news on the vaccine front, the stock market just posted its worst weekly performance in three months after Reddit traders squeezed Wall Street's elite out of billions of dollars, sending prices of heavily shorted stocks up to atmospheric new highs and fueling concerns over market frothiness - but experts seem in broad agreement that the bull market can rage on."
• Fat Finger Syndrome - definition & explanation.
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• FinViz - "Offers the fastest and the most advanced stock screener available online, interactive markets maps, innovative market analysis and institutional services."
• First U.S. bitcoin futures available now - Chicago Board Options Echange (CBOE).
• FTSE 100 suffers worst year since 2008 financial crisis - "UK index fell by 14.3% during 2020, the poorest performance among largest international stock index."
• GOOGLE FINANCE - "Stock market quotes, news, currency conversions & more."
• GOOGLE FINANCE: STOCK SCREENER - "Find top stock with our stock screener."
• How Stories Drive the Stock Market - The New York Times.
• How to Prepare for a Stock Market Surprise - The New York Times.
• International STOCK INDEXES - The Wall Street Journal.
• List of futures exchanges - Wikipedia.
• List of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average - Wikipedia.
• LIST OF STOCK EXCHANGES - Wikipedia.
• Major Stock market crashes - Wikipedia.
• Microsoft beats Apple as most valuable company for first time in two years - "With market capitalizations neck-and-neck at $2.887tn and $2.875tn, Microsoft pulls ahead due to worries about iPhone sales."
• MSCI World - since 1969. Market cap weighted stock market index of 1,649 stocks from companies throughout the world. The components can be found here. It is maintained by MSCI Inc., formerly Morgan Stanley Capital International, and is used as a common benchmark for 'world' or 'global' stock funds intended to represent a broad cross-section of global markets.
• NASDAQ OMX - "Our global presence includes more than 60 locations in 26 countries."
• Nikkei Back Above 30,000 After More Than Three Decades - "Japanese stocks have capitalised on an anticipated global rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic this year, with the abundance of cyclical shares, such as electronic parts makers, attracting global investors. The break of 30,000 could open the way for test of all-time high of 38,957, touched at the end of 1989."
• 'Robbery of the century' London bankers on trial for siphoning €60bn - "'The men who plundered Europe': Martin Shields and Nick Diable are accused of tax fraud in ‘cum-ex’ scandal that exposes City’s pursuit of profit."
• SECOND MARKET - "The marketplace for alternative investments." American online marketplace for buying and selling illiquid assets, including auction-rate securities, bankruptcy claims, limited partnership interests, private company stock, restricted securities in public companies, structured products, and whole loans.
• Stock exchange - Wikipedia.
• STOCK MARKET INDEX - Wikipedia.
• The Only Six Stocks That Matter - The Wall Street Journal.
• The stock market is flashing a warning sign - "When US stocks rise and the VIX stays low (and often goes lower), that's typically a green light for investors. But financial markets are in an entirely different world today -- one that would normally imply a much lower VIX."
• There are now four $1 trillion companies - "The club of $1 trillion companies just keeps growing. Now there are four."
• Trading Views - since 2011. "Free Stock Charts & Quoted Online." Network where active traders exchange ideas to maximise profit.
• Visualizing 60 Years of Stock Market Cycles - "To give some context on the current stock market cycle, this graphic shows 60 years of bull and bear markets."
• VIX - the ticker symbol and the popular name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index, a popular measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options. It is calculated and disseminated on a real-time basis by the CBOE, and is often referred to as the fear index or fear gauge.
• Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost - "No more dinners with female colleagues. Don’t sit next to them on flights. Book hotel rooms on different floors. Avoid one-on-one meetings. In fact, as a wealth adviser put it, just hiring a woman these days is 'an unknown risk.' What if she took something he said the wrong way?"
• What Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929 - And What We Still Get Wrong About It - "In retrospect, the Wall Street crashes of late October 1929 - now known as Black Thursday, Black Monday and Black Tuesday - have often been seen as the beginning of what would become the Great Depression. But just as there was a lot of confusion back then about what was going on, there is still confusion about the effect Black Thursday had on the economy in the years that followed."
• World's biggest stock exchanges - Forbes.

Top 50 Most Important Stock Exchanges & Indexes

• AEX | AMSTERDAM STOCK EXCHANGE
• ASX | AUSTRALIAN SECURITES EXCHANGE
• ATX | VIENNA STOCK EXCHANGE
• BBC GLOBAL 30 - calculated by FTSE.
• BEL20 | BELGIAN STOCK INDEX
• BSE | BOMBAY STOCK EXCHANGE
• Borsa Istanbul - the sole exchange entity of Turkey.
• BURSA MALAYSIA
• BUX | BUDAPEST STOCK EXCHANGE
• CAC 40 | PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE
• CBOE | CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS EXCHANGE
• DAX | GERMAN STOCK EXCHANGE
• DOW JONES AVERAGES | Dow Jones Industrial Average - stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. The industrial average was first calculated on May 26, 1896. Currently owned by S&P Dow Jones Indices.
• DOW JONES Indices
• Frankfurt Stock Exchange | FWB - since 1585. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange accounts for over 90 percent of the turnover in the German market and a very large share of the European market.
• FTSE 100 Index - Reuters.
• FTSE UK Index Series - official website.
• FTSE UK INDEX SERIES
• GCC STOCK MARKETS - Golf stock exchanges.
• Hang Seng Index | HSI - freefloat-adjusted market capitalization-weighted stock market index in Hong Kong.
• HKEx | HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGES
• HOCHIMINH STOCK EXCHANGE | HOSE - since 2000.
• HUI Gold Index - since 1996. NYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index.
• IBEX 35 | Spanish Exchange Index
• IDX | INDONESIA STOCK EXCHANGE
• IEX - since 2012. "A Market That Works For Investors."
• JSX Composite | Indonesia Stock Exchange - Yahoo! Finance.
• KOSPI | KOREA Stock EXCHANGE - Reuters.
• LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE - since 1801.
• MICEX Index - cap-weighted composite index calculated based on prices of the 50 most liquid Russian stocks of the largest and dynamically developing Russian issuers presented on the Moscow Exchange. MICEX Index was launched on September 22, 1997 at base value 100. The MICEX Index is calculated in real time and denominated by Moscow Exchange in Russian rubles.
• Moscow EXCHANGE (MOEX) - since 2011. The largest exchange in Russia, operating trading markets in equities, bonds, derivatives, the foreign exchange market, money markets and precious metals. The Moscow Exchange also operated Russia's central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository, and the country's largest clearing service provider, the National Clearing Centre. Trading at the exchange was suspended on 22 February 2022 due to global repercussions resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Trading remained suspended until 21 March, and was only then opened for state bonds.
• NASDAQ Stock Market - "Stock Quotes - Stock Exchange News."
• NASDAQ Dubai
• NASDAQ OMX NORDIC - Copenhagen - Stockholm - Helsinki - Iceland.
• NIKKEI 225 | TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE - official webpage
• NIKKEI 225 - Bloomberg
• NSE | NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE OF INDIA
• NYMEX | NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE - since 1882.
• NYSE | NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE - since 1908. All indices.
• OSLO STOCK EXCHANGE | OSE - attracts a lot of international companies within petroleum, shipping and other related areas.
• Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index
• PSE | THE PHILIPPINE STOCK EXCHANGE
• RICI | ROGERS INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY INDEX
• Russell Indexes - since 1984. Family of global equity indices that allow investors to track the performance of distinct market segments worldwide. Many investors use mutual funds or exchange-traded funds based on the Russell Indexes as a way of gaining exposure to certain portions of the U.S. stock market.
• S&P 500 | Standard & Poor's 500 - since 1957. American stock market index based on the market capitalizations of 500 large companies having common stock listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ. The S&P 500 index components and their weightings are determined by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It differs from other U.S. stock market indexes, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the Nasdaq Composite index, because of its diverse constituency and weighting methodology.
• S&P / ASX 50 - represents the large cap universe for the Australian equity market, and is comprised of the 50 largest stocks by float-adjusted market capitalization.
• S&P / ASX 200 - market-capitalization weighted and float-adjusted stock market index of Australian stocks listed on the Australian Securities Exchange from Standard & Poor's.
• SIX Swiss Exchange - since 1995. Based in Zurich, is Switzerland's principal stock exchange.
• SSE Composite Index - stock market index of all stocks (A shares and B shares) that are traded at the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The base day for SSE Composite Index is December 19, 1990, and the base period is the total market capitalization of all stocks of that day. The Base Value is 100. The index was launched on July 15, 1991.
• SSE | SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE - since 1990.
• Shenzhen Stock Exchange - opened in 1991.
• SGX | SINGAPORE EXCHANGE - since 1999.
• SMI | SWISS Market Index - since 1988. Switzerland's blue-chip stock market index.
• STI | STRAITS TIMES INDEX - since 1966. Capitalisation-weighted stock market index that is regarded as the benchmark index for the Singapore stock market.
• STOXX - 1997. Globally integrated index provider, covering the world markets across all asset classes – developing, maintaining, distributing and marketing a comprehensive global family of strictly rules-based and transparent indices.
• Stoxx Europe 600 - "The STOXX Europe 600 Index is derived from the STOXX Europe Total Market Index (TMI) and is a subset of the STOXX Global 1800 Index. With a fixed number of 600 components, the STOXX Europe 600 Index represents large, mid and small capitalization companies across 18 countries of the European region: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom."
• TAIEX | TAIWAN STOCK EXCHANGE - since 1961.
• TASI | SAUDI STOCK EXCHANGE - since 2007.
• TSE | TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE - since 1878. It is the third largest stock exchange in the world by aggregate market capitalization of its listed companies. It had 2,292 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of US$4.5 trillion as of November 2013.
• TSX | TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE - since 1861.
• Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index | Wilshire 5000 - market-capitalization-weighted index of the market value of all stocks actively traded in the United States.