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BSE launches carbon-based thematic index
• The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) launched BSE Carbonex, the first carbon-based thematic index in the
country, which takes a strategic view of organisational commitment to climate change mitigation.
• This index has been launched with the aim of creating a benchmark, and increasing awareness about the
risks posed by climate change.
• It will enable investors to track performance of the constituent companies of BSE-100 index regarding
their commitment to greenhouse gases emission reduction.









Chitra Ramakrishna
• A chartered accountant and has been with NSE since its inception 1991.
• Will be the Managing Director and CEO of National Stock Exchange from 1st April 2013.




the following was appointed as the Managing Director and
Chief Executive of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Asia’s oldest stock exchange?
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Ashishkumar Chauhan








DOW JONES------NEWYORK
HANG SENG------HONG KONG
FTSE 100---LONDON
          ----SEOUL



LONDON-----FOOTSIE


NSE WAS ESTABLISHED  IN 1992


The National Stock Exchange said financial firm Emkay Global Financial Services was responsible for the erroneous trades of over 6.5 billion rupees that caused a halt in the bourse's trading systems. The bourse said Emkay had placed 59 erroneous orders that resulted in multiple trades with an aggregate value of over 6.5 billion rupees on behalf of an institutional client.

Stock market

Rank	Economy	Stock Exchange	Headquarters	Market Capitalization (USD Billions)	Trade Value (USD Billions)
1	United States  Europe	NYSE Euronext (US & Europe)	New York City	14,242	20,161
2	United States  Europe	NASDAQ OMX (US & North Europe)	New York City	4,687	13,552
3	Japan	Tokyo Stock Exchange	Tokyo	3,325	3,972
4	United Kingdom	London Stock Exchange	London	3,266	2,837
5	China	Shanghai Stock Exchange	Shanghai	2,357	3,658
6	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Stock Exchange	Hong Kong	2,258	1,447
7	Canada	Toronto Stock Exchange	Toronto	1,912	1,542
8	Brazil	BM&F Bovespa	São Paulo	1,229	931
9	Australia	Australian Securities Exchange	Sydney	1,198	1,197
10	Germany	Deutsche Börse	Frankfurt	1,185	1,758
11	Switzerland	SIX Swiss Exchange	Zurich	1,090	887
12	China	Shenzhen Stock Exchange	Shenzhen	1,055	2,838
13	Spain	BME Spanish Exchanges	Madrid	1,031	1,226
14	India	Bombay Stock Exchange	Mumbai	1,007	148
15	South Korea	Korea Exchange	Seoul	996	2,029
16	India	National Stock Exchange of India	Mumbai	985	589
17	Russia	MICEX-RTS	Moscow	800	514
18	South Africa	JSE Limited	Johannesburg	789	372

 

Stock Market Indices USA Africa Asia and Pacific Canada Europe Middle East South America International BBC Global 30 - world stock market index of 30 of the largest companies by stock market value in Europe, Asia and the Americas. iShares MSCI EAFE Index (EFA) - provides investment results generally equivalent to publicly traded securities in the European, Australasian and Far Eastern markets. Maintained by Morgan Stanley Capital International. MSCI World - free-float weighted equity index. Index includes stocks of all the developed markets. Common benchmark for world stock funds. S&P Global 1200 - global stocks index covering 31 countries and around 70 percent of global market capitalization. United States AMEX Composite - composite value of all of the stocks traded on the American Stock Exchange. Dow Jones Indexes - leading global index provider.( new York) Dow Jones Industrial Average - one of the most widely quoted of all the market indicators. Consists of 30 of the largest publicly traded firms in the U.S. Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 - designed to track the performance of all publicly traded companies based in the U.S. NASDAQ Composite - broad market index of all of the common stocks and similar securities traded on the NASDAQ stock market. NYSE Composite - covers all common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Russell Indexes - leading U.S. equity index family for institutional investors. Russell 3000 Index - measures the performance of the largest 3000 U.S. companies representing approximately 98% of the investable U.S. equity market. S&P 500 - stock market index containing the stocks of 500 Large-Cap corporations. Comprises over 70% of the total market cap of all stocks traded in the U.S. Owned by Standard & Poor's. Africa Egypt Case 30 - index of the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange; includes the top 30 companies in terms of liquidity and activity. Morocco MASI Index - stock index of the Casablanca Stock Exchange. South Africa Johannesburg All Share Index Asia and Pacific S&P ASIA 50 Australia All Ordinaries - index of shares listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). S&P/ASX 200 China SSE Composite - index of all listed stocks (A shares and B shares) at Shanghai Stock Exchange. Hong Kong Hang Seng Indexes - record daily changes of the largest companies of the Hong Kong stock market (represent about 67% of capitalization of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange). India BSE SENSEX 30 - includes the 30 largest and most actively traded stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange. S&P CNX Nifty - index for 50 large companies on the National Stock Exchange of India. Indonesia JSX Composite - index of all stocks traded on the Jakarta Stock Exchange. Japan Nikkei 225 - stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Malaysia FTSE Bursa Malaysia Index New Zealand NZX 50 Pakistan KSE 100 - index acting as a benchmark to compare prices on the Karachi Stock Exchange. Philippines PSEi Index - index acting as a benchmark to compare prices on the Karachi Stock Exchange. Singapore ST Index South Korea KOSPI - index of all common shares on the Korean Stock Exchanges. Taiwan TSEC - capitalization-weighted index of all listed common shares traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Canada S&P/TSX Composite - index of the stock prices of the largest companies on Toronto Stock Exchange. Europe Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50 - free-float market capitalization-weighted index of 50 Eurozone stocks. Provides a blue-chip representation of Supersector leaders in the Eurozone. FTSEurofirst 300 Index - free-float capitalization-weighted price index. Measures the performance of Europe's largest 300 companies by market capitalization. Covers 70% of Europe's market cap. OMX Baltic Index - covers stock exchanges in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. OMX Nordic 40 - market value-weighted index of the 40 most-traded stock classes of shares in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Reykjavik and Stockholm. S&P Europe 350 - free float market cap weighted index. Covers at least 70% of European equity market capitalization. Belgium BEL20 Czech Republic PX Index Denmark OMX Copenhagen 20 Finland OMX Helsinki 25 France CAC 40 - contains 40 stocks selected among the top 100 market capitalisation and the most active stocks listed on Euronext Paris. Germany DAX - measures the performance of the Prime Standard’s 30 largest German companies in terms of order book volume and market capitalization. Ireland ISEQ 20 - represents the 20 most liquid and largest capped equities quoted on the Irish Stock Exchange. Italy S&P/MIB Index - capitalization weighted index developed by S&P and Borsa Italiana. Netherlands AEX Index - index of Euronext Amsterdam, consists of the 25 most active securities in the Netherlands. Poland Warsaw Stock Exchange WIG Index Portugal PSI-20 Russia MICEX Index - capital-weighted price index of the 30 major and most liquid Russian stocks traded at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange. RTS Index - index of 50 Russian stocks traded on the RTS Stock Exchange. Spain IBEX 35 Sweden OMX Stockholm 30 Index Switzerland Swiss Market Index (SMI) - includes the twenty largest and most liquid SPI stocks; represents about 85% of the free- float market capitalization of the Swiss equity market. United Kingdom FTSE 100 Index (Financial Times Stock Exchange Index) - capitalization-weighted index of the 100 most highly capitalized companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. Middle East Israel TA-25 - index tracks the prices of the shares of the 25 companies with the highest market capitalization on the Tel-Aviv exchange. Jordan ASE Market Capitalization Weighted Index Oman MSM 30 South America iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index (ILF) Argentina MERVAL - index of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. Brazil Bovespa Index - index of about 50 stocks that are traded on the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange. Mexico Indice de Precios y Cotizaciones (IPC) - index of 35 stocks traded on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores.

SEBI

Upendra Kumar Sinha  is the present chairman of SEBI.

India

The list maintained by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is not current as of 2010.^[1][2]

§  Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)

§  National Stock Exchange of India (NSE)

§  Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX)

§  United Stock Exchange of India (USE)

§  Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX)

§  MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX)

§  Over the Counter Exchange of India (OTCEI)

§  Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India (ISE)

§  Madras Stock Exchange (MSE)

§  Ahmedabad Stock Exchange (ASE)

§  Bhubaneshwar Stock Exchange (BhSE)

§  Cochin Stock Exchange (CSE)

§  Hyderabad Stock Exchange (HSE)

§  Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE)

§  Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE)

§  Bangalore Stock Exchange

§  Madhya Pradesh Stock Exchange, Indore

§  Jaipur Stock Exchange (JSE)

§  Magadh Stock Exchange, Patna

§  UP Stock Exchange (UPSE)

§  Vadodara Stock Exchange,Vadodara (VSE)

Commodity Exchange

§  Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX)

§  National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX)

§  Indian National Multi-Commodity Exchange (NMCE)

§  Commodity Exchange Limited ICEX

The BSE Sensex currently consists of the following 30 major Indian companies as of 17 February 2012.^[1]

#	Company	Industry	Scrip
1	Housing Development Finance Corporation	Consumer finance	500010
2	Cipla	Pharmaceuticals	500087
3	Bharat Heavy Electricals	Electrical equipments	500103
4	State Bank Of India	Banking	500112
5	HDFC Bank	Banking	500180
6	Hero Motocorp	Automotive	500182
7	Infosys	Information Technology	500209
8	Oil and Natural Gas Corporation	Oil and gas	500312
9	Reliance Industries	Oil and gas	500325
10	Tata Power	Power	500400
11	Hindalco Industries	Metals and Mining	500440
12	Tata Steel	Steel	500470
13	Larsen & Toubro	Conglomerate	500510
14	Mahindra & Mahindra	Automotive	500520
15	Tata Motors	Automotive	500570
16	Hindustan Unilever	Consumer goods	500696
17	ITC	Conglomerate	500875
18	Sterlite Industries	Metals and Mining	500900
19	Wipro	Information Technology	507685
20	Sun Pharmaceutical	Pharmaceuticals	524715
21	GAIL	Oil and gas	532155
22	ICICI Bank	Banking	532174
23	Jindal Steel & Power	Steel and power	532286
24	Bharti Airtel	Telecommunication	532454
25	Maruti Suzuki	Automotive	532500
26	Tata Consultancy Services	Information Technology	532540
27	NTPC	Power	532555
28	DLF	Real estate	532868
29	Bajaj Auto	Automotive	532977
30	Coal India	Metals and Mining	533278

Sensex 30 companies

Nifty 50 companies

NSE: World’s Largest Bourse
The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) came up as the world’s largest bourse in terms of the number of trades it
made in equity segment for the first 6 months of 2012.
The ranking is done by World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).
As per WFE, NSE made a total of 7,35,474 trades in the equity segment during January-June 2012, making it the
world’s largest exchange on this scale.
Rankings on the basis of No. of Trade in equity segment:
1. NSE India
2. NYSE Euronext
3. Nasdaq OMX
Ranking in terms of Index Options Traded
1. Korea Exchange
2. NSE India
3. Eurex
Factors helped NSE:
Expanding investor base
Latest technology
New products
Facts:
· Tier-three cities investors contributed more than 45 % of total cash market retail turnover in the financial year 2011-
12.
· Tier-three cities contribute more than half of the total retail investor base on NSE.