10 Facts About Stock exchange

Stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse, is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds, and other financial instruments.

Securities traded on a stock exchange include stock issued by listed companies, unit trusts, derivatives, pooled investment products and bonds.

The first book in history of securities exchange, the Confusion of Confusions, was written by the Dutch-Jewish trader Joseph de la Vega and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange is often considered the oldest “modern” securities market in the world.

Stock exchange trading was more limited and subdued in subsequent decades.

Bombay Stock Exchange was started by Premchand Roychand in 1875.

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Bombay Stock Exchange continued to operate out of a building near the Town Hall until 1928.

On 31 August 1957, the BSE became the first stock exchange to be recognized by the Indian Government under the Securities Contracts Regulation Act.

Besides the borrowing capacity provided to an individual or firm by the banking system, in the form of credit or a loan, a stock exchange provides companies with the facility to raise capital for expansion through selling shares to the investing public.

Therefore, the stock exchange provides the opportunity for small investors to own shares of the same companies as large investors.

Each stock exchange imposes its own listing requirements upon companies that want to be listed on that exchange.