Stock exchange facts for kids
A stock exchange, share market or bourse is a place where people meet to buy and sell shares of company stock. Some stock exchanges are real places (like the New York Stock Exchange), others are virtual places (like the NASDAQ).
International Stock Exchanges
The most important stock exchanges in the world include:
- American Stock Exchange
- Baku Stock Exchange
- Bombay Stock Exchange
- Euronext
- Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- Helsinki Stock Exchange
- Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Johannesburg Securities Exchange
- London Stock Exchange
- Luxembourg Stock Exchange
- Madrid Stock Exchange
- Milan Stock Exchange
- Nairobi Stock Exchange
- NASDAQ
- National Stock Exchange
- New York Stock Exchange
- National Stock Exchange of Pakistan
- São Paulo Stock Exchange
- Korea Stock Exchange
- Shanghai Stock Exchange
- Singapore Exchange
- Stockholm Stock Exchange
- Taiwan Stock Exchange
- Tokyo Stock Exchange
- Toronto Stock Exchange
- Zürich Stock Exchange
Great depression
On October 29, 1929, the American stock market crashed on what is known as Black Tuesday. A "crash" means that the prices of stock were lowered greatly, and no one wanted to buy it. Instead, they sold the stock for cheap prices. Also, banks were trying to buy stock with people's money (stored inside the bank), so the banks ran out of money too. Because people could not get money back from banks, only a few people could afford the cost of living. This was the start of the Great Depression.
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Images for kids
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Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (or Beurs van Hendrick de Keyser in Dutch), the world's first formal stock exchange. The first formal stock market in its modern sense, was a pioneering innovation by the VOC managers and shareholders in the early 1600s.
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The term bourse is derived from the 13th-century inn named "Huis ter Beurze" (center) in Bruges. From Dutch-speaking cities of the Low Countries, the term 'beurs' spread to other European states where it was corrupted into 'bourse', 'borsa', 'bolsa', 'börse', etc. In England, too, the term ‘bourse’ was used between 1550 and 1775, eventually giving way to the term ‘royal exchange’.
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Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/United East Indies Company (VOC). The Dutch East India Company was the first corporation to be ever actually listed on a stock exchange in its modern sense. In other words, the VOC was the world's first formally listed public company.
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Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (Beurs van Hendrick de Keyser), the foremost centre of European stock markets in the 17th century.
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London Stock Exchange in 1810
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Börse Frankfurt (founded in 1585)
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Tokyo Stock Exchange, Tokyo
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Indonesian Stock Exchange (Bursa Efek Indonesia) building in Jakarta, considered one of the oldest in Asia.
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The offices of Bursa Malaysia, Malaysia's national stock exchange (known before demutualization as Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange)
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