World stock exchanges

This section contains companies engaged in organizing trading on financial markets, providing intermediary services for transactions between buyers and sellers, as well as companies offering platforms for trading various assets, commodities, and financial instruments.

• America
• Europe
• Asia and Oceania
• Eurasian Union

Securities, currencies, and commodities can be purchased both from the manufacturer (the issuer of the security or currency) and on centralized exchange platforms. Exchanges organize a meeting between the buyer and the seller, provide complex services and operations to support transactions and settlements, deliveries, determine market prices, support transactions and other necessary services to execute transactions in accordance with the laws of countries regulating exchange trading in financial products and instruments.

For traders and investors, the most liquid exchanges are the US, Asian and European exchanges.

North American Stock Exchanges

US Stock Exchanges

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  NYSE — Official website of the New York Stock Exchange
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  NASDAQ — Official website of the high-tech companies exchange NASDAQ
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  NYSE American — Former American Stock Exchange (AMEX). One of the three largest options exchanges.
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  NYSE Texas — Texas Stock Exchange (former Chicago Stock Exchange)

US Commodity Exchanges

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  CME Group — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the largest exchange group in the world
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  CBOE — Chicago Board Options Exchange

US Futures Exchanges

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  Intercontinental Commodity Exchange (ICE) — New York Board of Trade (ICE=NYBOT+EUREX)
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  Philadelphia Stock Exchange — One of the three largest options exchanges. Owned by Nasdaq

Canada

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  TMX — Toronto Stock Exchange

Mexico

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  Mexican Stock Exchange — Mexican Stock Exchange

European Stock Exchanges

Stock Exchanges of Asia and Oceania

Stock Exchanges of Russia and the Eurasian Union

Stock Exchanges of the Eurasian Union