Showing posts with label Stock Exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stock Exchange. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

JSE Limited (Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited) previously known as JSE Securities Exchange has well over 472 listed companies (estimated) and is the largest stock exchange in Africa.
JSE, currently the 16th largest stock exchange in the world is located at the heart of South Africa. As of now, JSE is planning to create a sort of Pan-African exchange by allowing traders to initially trade in shares from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Ghana. JSE also has plans to expand across Africa later.
For someone who is not aware of what JSE is, well, it is a market where securities can be traded under a regulated or defined legal procedure. This stock exchange is not just a trading platform, but it also entertains investors by giving them profits on their investments in the form of dividends.
In all, there is only one stock exchange, JSE, in the whole of South Africa, which has one honorary committee and elected stockbroking members who are an essential part of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Posted on 8:28 PM by farooq

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Korea Exchange is the largest stock market in Korea. It is said theKRX was created by combining three existing Korean spot as well asfutures exchanges. These three exchanges were Korea Stock Exchange, KOSDAQ and Korea Futures Exchange.

KRX or Korea Exchange came into being after the Korea Stock & Futures Exchange Act was passed. All previous markets which dealt with stock, futures and securities now operate under and are a division of of KRX.
It is also reported that Korea Exchange has over 1700 listed companies local and international and their combine capital amounts to over $1.1 trillion.
Core features of Korea Exchange KRX include:
  • Stocks
  • Bonds
  • Exchange trade funds of ETFs
  • Real Estate Investment Trusts or REITs
  • KOSTAR Futures
  • KOSPI 200 Index Futures
  • KOSPI 200 Single Stock Futures
  • MSB Futures
  • Gold Futures
  • Lean Hog Futures
In all, Korea Exchange is has a wide variety of trade options and highly active in its trade.

Posted on 8:26 PM by farooq

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NASDAQ or National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations is basically an American Stock Exchange. It is a famousstock exchange as it has he the largest electronic screen based securities trading market system in U.S.

NASDAQ is also famous because it is an exchange which has over 3800 companies listed with it and also has more trading volume (per hour) than any stock exchange world wide.
NASDAQ was founded by in 1971 National Association of Securities Dealers and is currently operated by NASDAQ OMX Group. NASDAQbegan trading in 1971 and at that point of time it was the world’s first ever electronic stock market. Initially, it was just a computerized bulletin trade system which failed to connect buyers and sellers. LaterNASDAQ helped the conditions by lowering the prices or bringing them down to a negotiable level so that trading could actually take place.
Over the years, the NASDAQ became more of an actual market ortrading platform. This was due to added trade volume and improvedautomated trading system.
In short, NASDAQ quotes are available in three levels;
  • Level 1: which shows the highest and lowest quote offer
  • Level 2: which shows all public offers
  • Level 3: which is actually used by market marketers which allows to give their quote.

Posted on 8:25 PM by farooq

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With CEO Adnan Afridi, Karachi Stock Exchange is Pakistan’s largeststock exchange. It is owned by Karachi Stock Exchange Limited and is located in Karachi, Pakistan.

It is said that Karachi Stock Exchange is the biggest and most liquidstock exchange in Pakistan. This can be proved by the fact that it was declared as the best performing stock market of the world back in year 2002.
However, due to the recent situation, which is a result of events over the past years, Karachi Stock Exchange has experienced a big downturn. Global financial crises has also affected KSE performance a lot. So much so, that trading remained suspended for 4 months in the year 2008.
On the other hand, foreign buying interest had been very active in KSE.This was mainly due to the elections that took place and stocks were expected to remain cold. But KSE reached a 15000 point mark.
In all, KSE works on an electronic quote system. Therefore stock quotesare even available online. And now you can trade in Karachi Stock Exchange simply through web.

Posted on 8:24 PM by farooq

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NASDAQ live stock quotes. Get free online live updated NASDAQ stock quotes. The broadcast here airs live updated NASDAQ stock quotesalong with other research programs and business analysis.

The NASDAQ stock market live stream is also available to iPhone andBlackberry users. NASDAQ NY live stream airs 24 hour live programs. Even though trading is done for certain time period during the day, stillNASDAQ NY live broadcasts summary of the whole day.
Also during the day, NASDAQ NY live broadcast has certain news programs which cover the overall activities of the market. They provide with recommendations and future expected trends that the market might follow.
So, new traders can benefit a lot by watching NASDAQ NY live 0nlinebroadcast right here.

Posted on 8:22 PM by farooq

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LahoreStock Exchange is the second largest stock exchange in Pakistan after Karachi Stock Exchange. It is owned by Lahore Stock Exchange Limited and Arif Saeed is its CEO.
Lahore Stock Exchange or LSE was formed in 1970 and it initially had 83 members. Now LSE has 152 members and 519 listed companies. The expansion process of Lahore Stock Exchange not only ends here, but it goes on as it has opened branches in Faisalabad and Sialkot for trading.
The most interesting thing about Lahore Stock Exchange is that it is the first ever stock exchange in Pakistan to use electronic transactions system or trading can be done through internet.
As for now, 50% of Lahore Stock Exchange tradings are done through internet. Brokers have their online accounts and people can easily trade through them. Not only this, online stock quotes are also available on the internet.

Posted on 8:20 PM by farooq

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