Mexican Stock Exchange

The Mexican Stock Exchange (in Spanish: Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, BMV) is Mexico's only stock exchange. It is headquartered on the prestigious Paseo de la Reforma in central Mexico City. It is the second largest stock exchange in the Latin America. The total value of the Mexican Stock Exchange is estimated to be over US $600 billion

Bermuda Stock Exchange

The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX), established in 1971, is now the world’s leading fully electronic offshore securities market, with a current market capitalization (excluding mutual funds) in excess of US$300[citation needed] billion. Approximately 400 securities are listed on the BSX, of which almost 300 are offshore funds and alternative investment structures. As of 31 December 2007, the BSX had 53 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of $2.4 billion

Belgrade Stock Exchange

Belgrade Stock Exchange was first founded on November 21, 1894 and it functioned until the breakout of World War II in Yugoslavia. It officially began trading on January 2, 1895 in the Hotel Bosna building. In 1953 it was formally closed as the stock exchange did not fit the new socialist economy of the country.
It was reopened in 1989 as the Yugoslavian Capital Market, but after the breakup of the country it was renamed back to Belgrade Stock Exchange. In 2001 large scale privatization began and the Stock Exchange started trading privatized stock. A year later, trade with bonds of the Republic of Serbia started as well.
In September 2004, Belgrade Stock Exchange was accepted into the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges.

Athens Stock Exchange

The Athens Exchange or ATHEX (Greek: Χρηματιστήριο Αθηνών or ΧΑ) is a stock exchange located in Athens, Greece. It was first opened in 1876. Athens Exchange is a subsidiary of Hellenic Exchanges S.A., whose shares are listed in ATHEX. In August 1999 the derivatives market started operating, and in 2002 the Athens Stock Exchange and the Athens Derivatives Exchange merged to form Athens Exchange. Until 2007, it was located in Psiris, Sofocleous Street, near the city centre of Athens. For this reason the Exchange and Sofocleous St became synonymous. Now it resides in its new headquarters designed by Babis Vovos Constructions at 110 Athinon Street also called Kavalas Street. The exchange has normal trading sessions from 10:00am to 05:20pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance

American Stock Exchange

NYSE Alternext U.S., 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.

National Stock Exchange (NSE)

The National Stock Exchange (NSE), located in Bombay, is India's first debt market. It was set up in 1993 to encouragestock exchange reform through system modernization and competition. It opened for trading in mid-1994. It was recently accorded recognition as a stock exchange by the Department of Company Affairs. The instruments traded are, treasury bills, government security and bonds issued by public sector companies.

The number of members trading on the exchange has been on a steady increase, helping integrate the national market and providing a modern system with a complete audit trail of all transactions.

Stock Prices: Income vs. Growth

The price of an income stock tends to stay fairly flat. That is, from year to year, the price of the stock tends to remain about the same unless profits (and therefore dividends) go up. People are getting their money each year and the business is not growing. This would be the case for stock in a single restaurant that distributes all of its profits to the shareholders each year.

Let's say that the single restaurant decides, for several years, to save its profits, and eventually it opens a second restaurant. That is the behavior of a growth company. The value of the stock rises because, when the second restaurant opens, there is twice as much equipment and twice as much profit being earned by the company. In a growth stock, the shareholders do not get a yearly dividend, but they own a company whose value is increasing. Therefore, the shareholders can get more money when they sell their shares -- someone buying the stock would see the increasing book value of the company (the value of the buildings, equipment, etc.) and the increasing profit that the company is earning and, based on these factors, pay a higher price for the stock.

In a publicly traded company, all of the financial information about the company is public. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is in charge of collecting this information and making it available to investors. Shareholders also use a number of other indicators to determine how much a stock is worth. One simple indicator is the price/earnings ratio. This is the price of the stock divided by the earnings per share. There are all sorts of indicators like these, as well as a great deal of other financial information available on any stock. You can look up all of it on the Web in thousands of different places -- see the links at the end of this article for details.