Major Stock Exchange in theCountries over world

Singapore Stock Exchange

2009-10-20T08:20:00.000-07:00

Singapore Exchange Limited SGX: S68 (SGX) is the stock exchange in Singapore. SGX was formed on December 1, 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). It is the Asia Pacific's first demutualised and integrated securities and derivatives exchange. As of 31 December 2007, the Singapore Exchange had 762 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of $539 billion. The revenues of Singapore Exchange are mainly from the securities market (72%) and derivatives market (28%).

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Singapore Exchange Limited has achieved the highest arification needed] quarterly profit since its listing in 2000. SGX posted a profit of over $200 million which represents more than double growth of 2007 corresponding period. The strong results were achieved on the back of robust securities trading driven by high volatility and liquidity in the markets. Its Futures and Options market saw also another record year in 2007. SGX’s derivatives volume exceeded 44 million contracts, surpassing its previous annual record volume in 2006 by 21%. The strong increase in overall volumes was fuelled by soaring growth in some of its key contracts including the Nikkei 225, MSCI Taiwan and the MSCI Singapore Index Futures contracts, which also hit new record highs this year.

Hours

SGX's has pre market sessions from 08:30am to 09:00am and normal trading sessions from 09:00am to 05:00pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.

New York Stock Exchange

2009-10-20T07:54:00.004-07:00

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar value of its listed companies' securities.[3] As of October 2008, the combined capitalization of all domestic NYSE listed companies was US$10.1 trillion.

The NYSE is operated by NYSE Euronext, which was formed by the NYSE's 2007 merger with the fully electronic stock exchange Euronext. The NYSE trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street and is composed of four rooms used for the facilitation of trading. A fifth trading room, located at 30 Broad Street, was closed in February 2007. The main building, located at 18 Broad Street, between the corners of Wall Street and Exchange Place, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978, as was the 11 Wall Street building.

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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans rings the opening bell at the NYSE on April 23, 2003. Former chairman Jack Womack is also in this picture.

The New York Stock Exchange provides a means for buyers and sellers to trade shares of stock in companies registered for public trading. The NYSE is open for trading Monday through Friday between 9:30am 4:00pm ET, with the exception of holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.

On the trading floor, the NYSE trades in a continuous auction format, where traders can execute stock transactions on behalf of investors. They will gather around the appropriate post where a specialist broker, who is employed by an NYSE member firm acts as an auctioneer in an open outcry auction market environment to bring buyers and sellers together and to manage the actual auction. They do on occasion facilitate the trades by committing their own capital and as a matter of course disseminate information to the crowd that helps to bring buyers and sellers together.

As of January 24, 2007, all NYSE stocks can be traded via its electronic Hybrid Market. Customers can now send orders for immediate electronic execution, or route orders to the floor for trade in the auction market. In the first three months of 2007, in excess of 82% of all order volume was delivered to the floor electronically.
The NYSE trading floor on August 2008

The right to directly trade shares on the exchange is conferred upon owners of the 1366 seats. The term comes from the fact that up until the 1870s NYSE members sat in chairs to trade. In 1868, the number of seats was fixed at 533, and this number was increased several times over the years. In 1953, the exchange stopped at 1366 seats. These seats are a sought after commodity as they confer the ability to directly trade stock on the NYSE. Seat prices have varied widely over the years, generally falling during recessions and rising during economic expansions. The most expensive inflation adjusted seat was sold in 1929 for $625,000, which, today, would be over six million dollars. In recent times, seats have sold for as high as $4 million in the late 1990s and $1 million in 2001. In 2005, seat prices shot up to $3.25 million as the exchange was set to merge with Archipelago and become a for profit, publicly traded company. Seat owners received $500,000 cash per seat and 77,000 shares of the newly formed corporation. The NYSE now sells one year licenses to trade directly on the exchange.

Equity	Symbol	Info
Companies listed on the NYSE
A K Steel	AKS
A M R	AMR
A M R Cp 7.875	AAR
A V X	AVX
A a R	AIR
A.h. Belo Corporation	AHC
Aaron Rents	RNT
Aaron Rents	RNT.A
Aarons Cl A	AAN.A
Aarons Inc.	AAN
Ab Svensk Cdss Arbmn	CBJ
Ab Svensk Ekport	AXF
Ab Svensk Ekportkrdt	SQT
Ab Svensk Ekportkred	EOA
Ab Svensk Ekportkred	RCW
Ab Svensk Ekportkred	IWK
Ab Svensk Ekportkred	DVK
Ab Svensk Msci Arn	MIS
Ab Svensk Russell	REU
Ab Svensk Sp Arns	MHG
Ab Svensk Sp Arns	SAD
Abb	ABB
Abbott Labs	ABT
Abercrombie & Fitch	ANF
Abitibi	ABY
Abm	ABM
Acadia	AKR
Acc Bear Amex Egy	IMW
Acc Bear Mkt Nts Sp	BJV
Acc Rt Nt Sp Mid 400	SZM
Acc Rtm Nts Sp500	ODY
Acc Rtn Nts Sp 500	SZI
Accel Nts Russell	RDF
Accelerated Return Bear Market Notes	ICT
Accelerated Return Notes Linked to	MKY
Accenture	ACN
Accerlated Bear Mkt	BFN
Acco	ABD
Ace	ACE
Action Performance	ATN
Actuant	ATU
Acuity	AYI
Adams Express	ADX
Administadora De Pensiones	PVD
Administaff	ASF
Advance America	AEA
Advance Auto Parts	AAP
Advanced Medical Optics	EYE
Advanced Micro	AMD
Advanced Semiconductors	ASX
Advantest	ATE
Aecom Technology Cor	ACM
Aegean Marine Petrol	ANW
Aegon	AEG
Aegon Fltg Perp	AEO
Aegon N.v.	AEB
Aegon N.v.	AEV
Aegon N.v.	AEF
Aegon Perp Cap	AEH
Aegon Perp Cap	AED
Aercap Holdings N.v.	AER
Aeropostale	ARO
Aes	AES
Aetna	AET
Affiliated Computer	ACS
Affiliated Managers	AMG
Aflac	AFL
Agco	AG
Agco Corp	AGCO
Agilent	A
Agnico Eagle Mines	AEM
Agree Realty	ADC
Agria Corp Ads	GRO
Agrium	AGU
Aig Nikkei 225 Mitts	NOW
Air Products	APD
Aircastle Ltd.	AYR
Airgas	ARG
Airtran	AAI
Aktiebolaget Svensk	AQD
Alabama Power Co.	ABA
Alabama Power Co.	ALZ
Alabama Power Co.	ALQ
Alabama Power Sr Aa 5.625	ALF
Alamo	ALG
Alaska Air	ALK
Albany	AIN
Albemarle	ALB
Alberto Culver	ACV
Alcatel-lucent	ALU
Alcoa	AA
Alcon	ACL
Alesco Financial	AFN
Alexander Baldwin Inc.	AXB
Alexanders	ALX
Alexandria	ARE
Alleghany	Y
Allegheny	ATI
Allegheny	AYE
Allergan	AGN
Allete	ALE
Alliance All Market	AMO
Alliance Bernstein	AB
Alliance Data	ADS
Alliance Imaging	AIQ
Alliance One	AOI
Alliant	ATK
Alliant Energy	LNT
Allianz Aktiengesell	AZ
Allianz Se	AZM
Allied Capital	ALD
Allied Irish	AIB
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings	AWH
Allis-chalmers Energy	ALY
Allmerica	AFC
Allmerica Securities	ALM
Allstate	ALL
Alon	ALJ
Alpha Natural	ANR
Alpine Gbl Prmr Prop	AWP
Altria	MO
Alumina	AWC
Aluminum China	ACH
Amb Properties	AMB
Ambac	ABK
Ambac 5.875 Deb	AKT
Ambac Finl 5.95 Debs	AKF
Amcol	ACO
Amdocs	DOX
Amerada Hess	HES
Ameren	AEE
America Movil	AMX
American Axle	AXL
American Campus	ACC
American Dairy	ADY
American Electric Power	AEP
American Equity Life	AEL
American Express	AXP
American Financial	AFE
American Financial	AFG
American Greetings	AM
American International	AIG
American International Grp.	AVF
American International Grp.	AFF
American Land Lease	ANL
American Oriental Bioengineering	AOB
American Realty	ARL
American Repro	ARP
American Safety	ASI
American States Water	AWR
American Tower	AMT
American Vanguard Corp.	AVD
American Wtr Wrks	AWK
Americredit	ACF
Amerigas	APU
Amerigroup	AGP
Amerisourcebergen	ABC
Ameron	AMN
Ametek	AME
Amn Healthcare	AHS
Amp	AMP
Ampco-pittsburgh	AP
Amphenol	APH
Amrep	AXR
Anadarko	APC
Analog Devices	ADI
Angelica	AGL
Anglogold Ashanti	AU
Anixter	AXE
Annaly Mortgage	NLY
Anntaylor Stores	ANN
Anthem Eqty Sec Unts	ATV
Anthracite	AHR
Anworth	ANH
Aon	AOC
Apache	APA
Apartment Investment	AIV
Applied Industrial	AIT
Aptar	ATR
Aqua America	WTR
Aracruz Celulose	ARA
Arbitron	ARB
Arbor	ABR
Arch Chemicals	ARJ
Arch Coal	ACI
Archer Daniels	ADM
Arena Resources	ARD
Armstrong World Indu	AWI
Arrow Electronics	ARW
Arvinmeritor	ARM
Asbury	ABG
Ashford Hospitality	AHT
Ashland	ASH
Aspen Insurance	AHL
Assisted Living Concepts (nevada	ALC
Associated Estates	AEC
Assurant	AIZ
Assured Guaranty	AGO
Astoria	AF
Astrazeneca	AZN
Atlanta Gas Light	ATG
Atlas Pipeline	APL
Atlas Pipeline Holdings Lp	AHD
Atmos	ATO
Att	ATT
Att	T
Atwood Oceanics	ATW
Au Optronics	AUO
Autoliv	ALV
Autonation	AN
Autozone	AZO
Av Svensk Ekportkred	NEH
Avalonbay	AVB
Aventine Renew Enrgy	AVR
Avery Dennison	AVY
Avis Budget Grp.	CAR
Avista	AVA
Avnet	AVT
Avon Products	AVP
Axa	AXA
Axis	AXS
Azz	AZZ

London Stock Exchange

2009-10-20T07:06:00.007-07:00

The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1801, it is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, with many overseas listings as well as British companies. The exchange is part of the London Stock Exchange Group and so sometimes referred to by the ticker symbol for the group, LSE.

Its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.

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The idea soon caught on one of the earliest was the Earl of Bedford's scheme to drain the fens. It is estimated that by 1695, there were 140 joint stock companies. The trade in shares was centred around the City's Change Alley in two coffee shops. Garraway's and Jonathan's. The broker, John Castaing, published the prices of stocks and commodities called The Course of the Exchange and other things in these coffee shops.

Licensing of brokers

In 1697, a law was passed to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stockjobbers following a number of insider trading and market rigging incidents. It required all brokers to be licensed and to take an oath promising to act lawfully.

Hours

Normal trading sessions are from 08:00 to 16:30 every day of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.

Equity	Symbol
Companies listed on the LSE
A & J Mucklow	MKLW
A.g. Barr	BAG
Abbey	ABBY
Abbey Protect.	ABB
Abbeycrest	ACR
Abcam	ABC
Aberdeen All	ABAA
Aberdeen Asian Income Fund	AAIF
Aberdeen Asian Smlr	AAS
Aberdeen Asset Management	ADN
Aberdeen Growth Opps Vct	AGW
Aberdeen Ig V	AIGV
Aberdeen New Dawn	ABD
Aberdeen New Thai	ANW
Aberforth Geared Cap	AFHI
Aberforth Smaller Companies	ASL
Ablon	ABL
Absolute Return Trust	ABR
Absolute Rtn E	ABRE
Acal	ACL
Access Intelligence	ACC
Accident Exchange	ACE
Accsys	AXS
Accuma	ACG
Acencia	ACD
Acertec	ACER
Acm Ship	ACMG
Acorn Income Fund	AIF
Acp Capital	APL
Acp Mezzanine	ACPM
Active Capital Trust	AIT
Addax Petroleum	AXC
Addleisure	ADE
Adept Telecom	ADT
Adili	ADIL
Adl	AD.
Admiral	ADM
Adv. Front. Npv	AFMF
Adv.dev.mkts S	ADDS
Advance Developing Markets	ADD
Advance Uk Trust	ADU
Advanced Comp	ASW
Advanced Medical Solutions	AMS
Advanced Power Components	APC
Advent Capital	ADV
Adventis	ATG
Advfn	AFN
Adwalker	AWR
Aea Technology	AAT
Aec Education	AEC
Aegis	AGS
Aer Lingus	AERL
Aero Inventory	AI.
Afc Energy	AFC
Afren	AFR
Africa Opp.	AOF
African Consolidated Resources	AFCR
African Copper	ACU
African Diamonds	AFD
African Eagle Resources	AFE
African Med	AMEI
African Min.	AMI
Aga Foodservice	AGA
Aggreko	AGK
Agi	AGI
Agriterra Ld	AGTA
Agua Terra	ATE
Ai Claims Solutions	ACS
Aim Distribution Trust	AMD
Air Partner	AIP
Airea	AIEA
Airsprung Furniture	APG
Aisi	AISI
Akers Biosciences	AKR
Alba Mineral Resources	ALBA
Albany	ABNY
Albany Capital	ALB
Albemarle & Bond	ABM
Albidon	ALD
Albion Protect	AAPV
Albion Venture	AAVC
Alea	ALEA
Alecto Engy	ALO
Alexander Dav.	ADS
Alexander Mining	AXM
Alexandra	AXD
Alexon	AXN
Alizyme	AZM
Alkane Energy	ALK
All Ipo	ALP
All Leisure	ALLG
All Points Nth.	APNO
Allergy Therapeutics	AGY
Alliance Pharma	APH
Alliance Trust	ATST
Allianz Dres Rcm End Pol Tst10pl	AZD
Allianz Dresdner Income Gwth It	ALR
Allianz Dresdr Endw Policy Tstpl	ADRK
Allied Gold	AGLD
Allied Irish Banks	ALBK
Alltrue	ATR
Alpha Pyrenees Trust	ALPH
Alpha Strategic	APS
Alpha Tiger	ATPT
Alphameric	ALM
Alterian	ALN
Alternative Asset Opps Pcc	TLI
Alternative Invest.strategies	AIS
Alternative Networks	AN.
Altona Resources	ANR
Alumasc	ALU
Amazing	AMZ
Amberley	AMB
Ambrian Capital	AMBR
Amec	AMEC
Amerisur	AMER
Amiad Filtration Systems	AFS
Aminex	AEX
Amino	AMO
Amlin	AML
Amphion Innovations	AMP
Amteus	AUS
Amur Minerals	AMC
Andor Technology	AND
Andrews Sykes	ASY
Angel Biotechnology	ABH
Angle	AGL
Anglesey Mining	AYM
Anglo & Overseas	AOT
Anglo American	AAL
Anglo Asian Mining	AAZ
Anglo Pacific	APF
Anglo-eastern Plantations	AEP
Angus & Ross	AGU
Animalcare Grp	ANCR
Anite	AIE
Ant	ANTP
Antisoma	ASM
Antofagasta	ANTO
Antonov	ATV
Antrim Egy	AEY
Aortech	AOR
Apace Media	APA
Api	API
Applied Optical	ALT
Aqua Resources	H2O
Aquarius Platinum	AQP
Arbuthnot Banking	ARBB
Arc	ARK
Arc Capital	ARCH
Archial Grp	ARL
Archipelago Resources	AR.
Arcontech	ARC
Arden Partners	ARDN
Arena Leisure	ARE
Argo Group	ARGO
Argo Real Est.	AREO
Ariana Resources	AAU
Ark Therapeutics	AKT
Arko	AKO
Arm	ARM
Armour	AMR
Arriva	ARI
Artemis Alpha Trust	ATS
Artilium	ARTA
Artisan	ART
Ascent Resources	AST
Aseana Prop.	ASPL
Ashley House	ASH
Ashmore	ASHM
Ashmr. Gbl.$	AGOU
Ashmr. Gbl.e	AGOE
Ashmr. Gbl.£	AGOL
Ashtead	AHT
Asia Energy	AEN
Asia Resources	ASR
Asian Citrus	ACHL
Asian Growth Properties	AGP
Asianlogic	ALOG
Asos	ASC
Asset Management Investment	AMN
Assetco	ASTO
Associated British Engineering	ASBE
Associated British Foods	ABF
Assura Grp	AGR
Astek	AKG
Asterand	ATD
Astrazeneca	AZN
At Communications	ATCG
Atelis	ATEL
Ath Resources	ATH
Athelney Trust	ATY
Atia Grp	ATIA
Atlantic Coal	ATC
Atlantic Global	ATL
Atlantis Japan Growth Fund	AJG
Atlas Estates	ATLS
Augean	AUG
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson	AUK
Aurelian	AUL
Aurora	ARR
Aurora Russia	AURR
Aurum Mining	AUR
Autoclenz	ACZ
Autologic	ALG
Autonomy	AU.
Avacta	AVCT
Avanti Comm.	AVN
Avanti Screenmedia	ASG
Avarae Global Coins	AVR
Avesco Group	AVS
Aveva	AVV
Avingtrans	AVG
Avis Europe	AVE
Avisen	AVI
Aviva	AV.
Avocet Mining	AVM
Avon Rubber	AVON
Axa Property Trust	APT
Axeon	AXE
Axis-shield	ASD
Azure Dyn	ADC

Hong Kong Stock Exchande

2009-10-20T06:43:00.000-07:00

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. The exchange has predominantly been the main exchange for Hong Kong where shares of listed companies are traded. It is Asia's third largest stock exchange in terms of market capitalisation, behind the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

As of 31 December 2007, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange had 1,241 listed companies with a combined market capitalisation of $2.7 trillion. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is the holding company for the exchange.

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Trading hours

The trading day consists of:

* A pre opening auction session from 9:30 am to 9:50 am. The opening price of a security is reported shortly after 9:50 am.
* A morning continuous trading session from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm
* An afternoon continuous trading session from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

The closing price is reported as the median of five price snapshots taken from 3:59 to 4:00 pm every 15 seconds. In May 2008, the exchange also implemented a closing auction session to run from 4:00 pm to 4:10 pm, with a similar pricing mechanism as the opening auction; however, this resulted in significant fluctuations in the closing prices of stocks and suspicions of market manipulation. Initially, the exchange proposed limiting price fluctuations in the auction sessions to 2% in the end, they removed the closing session entirely in March 2009.

Electronic trading

The exchange first introduced a computer assisted trading system on 2 April 1986. In 1993 the exchange launched the Automatic Order Matching and Execution System (AMS), which was replaced by the third generation system in October 2000.

40 largest stocks by market capitalisation

1. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China: $1,720.49
2. PetroChina: $1,713.23
3. HSBC Holdings: $1,654.82
4. China Mobile: $1,411.83
5. Bank of China: $1,175.62
6. China Life Insurance: $1,114.84
7. China Construction Bank: $1,074.01
8. Sinopec Corp: $769.91
9. Manulife Financial: $404.27
10. Bank of Communications: $392.54
11. China Shenhua Energy: $364.51
12. Hutchison Whampoa: $342.78
13. China Telecom: $317.25
14. Standard Chartered: $315.76
15. CNOOC: $290.30
16. Sun Hung Kai Properties: $249.18
17. China Merchants Bank: $245.62
18. Cheung Kong Holdings: $244.12
19. Ping An Insurance Group of China: $230.77
20. Bank of China (Hong Kong) Holdings: $225.73
21. Hang Seng Bank: $215.27
22. Foxconn International Holdings: $171.45
23. CLP Holdings: $140.52
24. Swire Pacific: $136.98
25. China Communications Construction: $128.69
26. China Unicom: $127.27
27. China Netcom: $121.84
28. MTR Corporation: $116.24
29. Esprit Holdings: $98.82
30. Hong Kong & China Gas: $96.29
31. Henderson Land Development: $94.99
32. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing: $94.60
33. Huaneng Power International: $90.30
34. Hutchison Telecommunications International: $89.84
35. Hang Lung Properties: $88.23
36. Sino Land: $87.78
37. Cathay Pacific Airways: $84.21
38. Aluminium Corp of China: $84.08
39. Air China: $84.02
40. Li & Fung: $82.17

Australian Stock Exchange

2009-10-20T06:12:00.000-07:00

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is the primary stock exchange in Australia. The ASX began as separate state-based exchanges established as early as 1861. Today trading is all electronic and the exchange is a public company, listed on the exchange itself.

The Australian Securities Exchange as it is now known resulted from the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange in December 2006.

The biggest stocks traded on the ASX, in terms of their market capitalisation, include BHP Billiton, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Telstra Corporation, Rio Tinto, National Australia Bank and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. As at 31 Dec 2006 the three largest sectors by market cap were financial services (34%), commodities (20%) and listed property trusts (10%).

The major market index is the S&P/ASX 200, an index made up of the top 200 shares in the ASX. This supplanted the previously significant All Ordinaries index, which still runs parallel to the S&P ASX 200. Both are commonly quoted together. Other indices for the bigger stocks are the S&P/ASX 100 and S&P/ASX 50.

The ASX is a public company, and its own shares are traded on the ASX. However, the corporation's charter restricts maximum individual holdings to a small fraction of the company.

While the ASX regulates other listed companies listed on the ASX, it cannot regulate itself, and is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The current managing director Robert Elstone was appointed in July 2006. Prior to the merger of ASX with the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE), Robert Elstone was the CEO of the SFE.

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Market Details

ASX has a pre market session from 07:00am to 10:00am AEST and a normal trading session from 10:00am to 04:00pm AEST.

The market opens alphabetically in single price auctions, phased over the first ten minutes, with a small random time built in to prevent exact prediction of the first trades. There is also a single price auction between 4:10pm and 4:12pm to set the daily closing prices. As of 30 March 2007, 2014 stocks were listed on the ASX with a total market capitalisation of A$1.39 trillion (US$1.098 trillion). At the end of 2004 it was the 8th largest world equity market comprising around 2.2% of the MSCI World index. Market turnover during 2004 was $A779bn.

Exchange Traded CFDs ASX CFDs

ASX CFDS are a new form of contract for difference that will be traded through an exchange based mechanism. Current CFD providers focus on either the direct market access or market maker models. This new development is set to be launched in November 2007 on the ASX and will be offered by Australia's leading online brokers and over-the-counter CFD providers including First Prudential Markets (FPM) and Commsec (Source: ASX website www.asx.com.au).

ASX CFDs will enjoy the traditional benefits of leverage enjoyed by over the counter contracts for difference but with reduced transaction costs from the central counter clearing model negating the financing charges traditionally imposed by third party cfd providers.

Only accredited brokers will offer ASX CFDs and multiple market makers have been appointed to facilitate liquidity. Additional information about ASX CFDs, including market developments is available here

Brokers that dominate market share in Australia include Macquarie Bank, Goldman Sachs JBWere, UBS, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, CSFB, Deutsche Bank, ABN AMRO, CommSec and Morgan Stanley. Retail investors account for around 20% of market turnover. Market ownership is broken down as 30% institutional, 40% foreign, 30% retail

Interest rate market

The interest rate market on the ASX is the set of corporate bonds, floating rate notes, and bond-like preference shares listed on the exchange. Those securities are all traded and settled the same as ordinary shares, but the ASX provides information such as their maturity, effective interest rate, etc, to aid comparison.

Australian ETFs

Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
expense ratios as of 2008-03-25 (rounded off to two decimal points)

Name	Issuer	Index	Expense Ratio
GOLD	ETFS Metal Securities Australia Ltd.	ETFS Physical Gold (Previously Gold Bullion Securities)	0.39%
CDF	CBA	Commonwealth Diversified Share Fund (see note below)	max 0.95%
IEU	iShares	S&P Europe 350	0.60%
IHK	iShares	MSCI Hong Kong	0.52%
IJH	iShares	S&P Midcap 400	0.20%
IJP	iShares	MSCI Japan	0.52%
IJR	iShares	S&P Smallcap 600	0.20%
IKO	iShares	MSCI South Korea	0.68%
IOO	iShares	S&P Global 100	0.40%
IRU	iShares	Russell 2000	0.20%
ISG	iShares	MSCI Singapore	0.51%
ITW	iShares	MSCI Taiwan	0.68%
IVE	iShares	MSCI EAFE	0.34%
IVV	iShares	S&P 500	0.09%
IZZ	iShares	FTSE/Xinhua China 25	0.74%
IAA	iShares	S&P Asia 50	0.50%
IBK	iShares	MSCI BRIC	0.75%
IXI	iShares	S&P Global Consumer Staples	0.48%
IXJ	iShares	S&P Global Healthcare	0.48%
IXP	iShares	S&P Global Telecommunications	0.48%
SFY	SPDR	S&P/ASX 50	0.29%
STW	SPDR	S&P/ASX 200	0.29%
SLF	SPDR	S&P/ASX 200 A-REIT (Australian real estate investment trusts in S&P/ASX 200)	0.40%
VAS	Vanguard Australia	S&P/ASX 300	0.27%
VTS	Vanguard Australia	US Total Market	0.09%
VEU	Vanguard Australia	All-World ex-US	0.25%

American Stock Exchange

2009-10-20T05:29:00.000-07:00

NYSE Amex Equities, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) is an American stock exchange situated in New York. AMEX was a mutual organization, owned by its members. Until 1953 it was known as the New York Curb Exchange.

On January 17, 2008 NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the American Stock Exchange for $260 million in stock. On October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed acquisition of the American Stock Exchange.

Before the closing of the acquisition, NYSE Euronext announced that the Exchange will be integrated with Alternext European small cap exchange and renamed NYSE Alternext U.S. In March 2009, NYSE Alternext U.S. was again rebranded to NYSE Amex Equities.

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Hours

The exchange's normal trading sessions are from 9:30am to 4:00pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.

Equity	Symbol	Info
Companies listed on the AMEX
Ableauctions	AAC
Accelr8	AXK
Acme United	ACU
Adams Resources	AE
Adcare Health Systems	ADK
Adherex	ADH
Advanced Photonix	API
Adventrx	ANX
Aerocentury	ACY
Aerosonic	AIM
Alexco Resource Corp	AXU
Allied Defense	ADG
Allied Nevada Gold Corp	ANV
Almaden	AAU
Alpha Pro	APT
Alpha Security Grp. Corp.	HDS
Alyst Acquisition Corp	AYA
Amcon	DIT
Amdl	ADL
American Apparel Inc	APP
American Biltrite	ABL
American Community Properties	APO
American Israeli Paper	AIP
American Oil & Gas	AEZ
American Shared Hospital Service	AMS
American Spectrum	AQQ
Amerivest	AMV
Ampex	AXC
Analex	NLX
Anooraq	ANO
Antares	AIS
Apex Silver Mines	SIL
Apollo Gold	AGT
Arcadia Resources	KAD
Argan Inc.	AGX
Arrhythmia	HRT
Asia Time Corp	TYM
Aspyra	APY
Atlas Acquisition Holdings Corp	AXG
Augusta Resource Corp.	AZC
Aurizon Mines	AZK
Aurora Oil Gas Corp.	AOG
Austral Pacific	AEN
Avalon	AWX
Axesstel	AFT

Colombo Stock Exchange

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The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) is the main stock exchange in Sri Lanka. It is one of the most modern exchanges in South Asia, providing a fully automated trading platform. The vision of the CSE is to contribute to the wealth of the nation by creating value through securities.

The headquarters of the CSE have been located at the World Trade Center Towers in Colombo since 1995 and it also has branches across the country in Kandy, Matara,Kurunegala and Negombo. As of 31 December 2007, the Colombo Stock Exchange had 235 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of $7.6 billion.

Trading session

The exchange has pre-market sessions from 09:00am to 09:30am and normal trading sessions from 09:30am to 02:30pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.

Technology

The CSE operates 3 main systems:

1. The Central Depository System
2. Automated Trading System
3. Debt Securities Trading System

The automation of the Exchange commenced in 1991 with the installation of a central depository and an electronic clearing and settlement system for share transactions. The trading activity was automated with the installation of the Automated Trading System (ATS) in 1997.

The technology introduced by the Exchange has significantly enhanced the competitiveness of the CSE and has provided a more efficient and transparent market. The CSE is currently in the process of introducing a debt securities trading system for trading of fixed income securities.

As a modern exchange, the CSE now offers state of the art technological infrastructure to facilitate an order driven trading platform for securities trading including shares, corporate debt securities and government debt securities.

Market capitalization, Indices

On May 31, 2005, 243 companies are enrolled on the CSE, on behalf of twenty business sectors with a market capitalization of 497 billion rupees (over US$ 4.9 billion),that matches approximately 24% of the gross domestic product of the country.

Presently there are 2 indices in the CSE

* The All Share Price Index (ASPI)
* The Milanka Price Index(MPI)

After ceasefire aggrement signed in 2001, the ASPI, floating near the 500 mark in August 2001, has now exceed the 2000 mark. This has led the CSE to be known as one of the finest performing markets in the World. During 2005 (for the earlier three years) ASPI's consistent annual growth was over 30%, which was a record.

Affiliation

The CSE was the first exchange in the South Asian Region and the 52nd exchange of the World which was elected as a member of the World Federation of Exchanges(FIBV) in October 1998. The CSE was one of the creating members of the South Asian Federation of Exchanges(SAFE).

Top Investors

* Asha Philip Securities.Ltd.
* Ceylinco Stockbrokers(pvt) Ltd.
* National Wealth Corporation Ltd.
* First Capital Equities(pvt) Ltd.
* Asiri Medical Services Limited
* Property Development Limited
* The Finance Company Ltd.
* Seylan Bank
* Singer(Sri Lanka) Limited
* Autodrome Limited
* Major Companies Listed
* DFCC Bank
* Marchant Bank of Sri Lanka Limited
* Sierra Cables Limited
* Asia Capital Limited
* Ceylinco Insurance Company Limited
* Central Securities Limited
* ACL Cables Limited
* Pan Asia Banking Corporation Ltd.
* Madulsima Plantations Limited
* Infrastructure Developers Limited