Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Banks

Banks

The interbank market caters for both the majority of commercial turnover and large amounts of speculative trading every day. A large bank may trade billions of dollars daily. Some of this trading is undertaken on behalf of customers, but much is conducted by proprietary desks, trading for the bank's own account. Until recently, foreign exchange brokers did large amounts of business, facilitating interbank trading and matching anonymous counterparts for small fees. Today, however, much of this business has moved on to more efficient electronic systems. The broker squawk box lets traders listen in on ongoing interbank trading and is heard in mosttrading rooms, but turnover is noticeably smaller than just a few years ago.

Major stock exchanges

Twenty Major Stock Exchanges In The World: Market Capitalization & Year-to-date Total Turnover at the end of May 2009

Region ↓ Stock Exchange ↓ Market Value
(millions USD) ↓
Total Share Turnover
(millions USD) ↓
Africa Johannesburg Securities Exchange 605,040.2 117,424.7
Americas NASDAQ 2,773,684.3 12,256,704.3
Americas São Paulo Stock Exchange 920,263.9 191,926.1
Americas Toronto Stock Exchange 1,347,674.0 490,912.4
Americas New York Stock Exchange 9,574,066.6 7,986,835.8
Asia-Pacific Australian Securities Exchange 839,062.7 273,205.9
Asia-Pacific Bombay Stock Exchange 1,032,589.6 83,906.6
Asia-Pacific Hong Kong Stock Exchange 1,773,002.2 519,465.7
Asia-Pacific Korea Exchange 640,357.6 618,607.8
Asia-Pacific National Stock Exchange of India 968,815.1 242,641.7
Asia-Pacific Shanghai Stock Exchange 2,069,937.1 1,685,862.2
Asia-Pacific Shenzhen Stock Exchange 563,103.3 880,744.6
Asia-Pacific Tokyo Stock Exchange 3,102,492.9 1,561,888.8
Europe Euronext 2,262,751.6 742,885.6
Europe Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse) 1,132,126.2 1,101,064.6
Europe London Stock Exchange 2,204,320.0 1,483,263.3
Europe Madrid Stock Exchange (Bolsas y Mercados Españoles) 1,084,606.4 591,217.3
Europe Milan Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana) 554,613.9 341,421.1
Europe Nordic Stock Exchange Group OMX1 664,465.8 319,398.1
Europe Swiss Exchange 854,369.0 272,201.5

^Note 1 includes the Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland, Stockholm, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius Stock Exchanges

Australian Securities Exchange's Sydney Exchange Centre in Sydney.

The main stock exchanges:

See also: Category:Stock exchanges

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