Stock Exchanges
Stock exchanges: For years the world’s stock markets have been enjoying a closer look unprecedented breadth and growth, with financial institutions routinely moving trillions of dollars of assets including stocks, bonds, and other instruments around the globe. The increasing The global financial crisis, however, has changed the scale and scope of levels of cross-border capital flows and foreign holdings of the capital markets as stock markets around the world have fallen, large financial assets have grown rapidly, which has, to a certain financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out, and governments extent, linked individual financial markets into an increasingly in even the wealthiest nations have had to create rescue packages to bail integrated global one. out their financial systems. As a result, stock exchanges around the world have experienced signifi- WFE Chairman William J. Brodsky of the Chicago Board Options Exchange cant falls in 2008 as the financial turmoil and economic slowdown ended (CBOE) said the WFE is making its resources available for the world’s policy mak- the stock market boom. Britain’s FTSE 100 had its worst year on record, ers and regulators during a period of global economic stress. ”We are at a critical down 31.3%, with similar falls in Paris and Frankfurt. Shanghai was one of juncture in the evolution of our global markets, and WFE is well positioned to share the worst-hit major markets, ending the year 65% lower, which was also a knowledge of exchanges with international governing bodies” said Mr. Brodsky. record loss. In New York, the Dow Jones has had its worst year since 1931, “Our overriding goal is to examine what has and has not worked in the midst of after losing almost 34% of its value last year and India’s main index in recent market turmoil.
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