The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest stock exchange in the world, with an equity market capitalization of almost ** trillion U.S. dollars as of June 2025. The following three exchanges were the NASDAQ, PINK Exchange, and the Frankfurt Exchange. What is a stock exchange? A stock exchange is a marketplace where stockbrokers, traders, buyers, and sellers can trade in equities products. The largest exchanges have thousands of listed companies. These companies sell shares of their business, giving the general public the opportunity to invest in them. The oldest stock exchange worldwide is the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, founded in the late sixteenth century. Other functions of a stock exchange Since these are publicly traded companies, every firm listed on a stock exchange has had an initial public offering (IPO). The largest IPOs can raise billions of dollars in equity for the firm involved. Related to stock exchanges are derivatives exchanges, where stock options, futures contracts, and other derivatives can be traded.

In 2025, stock markets in the United States accounted for roughly ** percent of world stocks. The next largest country by stock market share was China, followed by the European Union as a whole. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the NASDAQ are the largest stock exchange operators worldwide. What is a stock exchange? The first modern publicly traded company was the Dutch East Industry Company, which sold shares to the general public to fund expeditions to Asia. Since then, groups of companies have formed exchanges in which brokers and dealers can come together and make transactions in one space. Stock market indices group companies trading on a given exchange, giving an idea of how they evolve in real time. Appeal of stock ownership Over half of adults in the United States are investing money in the stock market. Stocks are an attractive investment because the possible return is higher than offered by other financial instruments.

While nearly every country in Europe has a stock exchange, only five are considered major, and have a market capital of over one trillion U.S dollars. European stock exchanges make up two of the top ten global major stock markets. Europe’s biggest stock exchange is the Euronext which combines five markets based in Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Oslo and Paris. Euronext The Euronext Stock Exchange saw a significant increase in total market capitalization between 2021 and 2022, before increasing again during 2023. As of March 2024, the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton was the largest company listed on the Euronext Stock Exchange in terms of market capitalization. Globally, the Euronext Stock Exchange is the fourth largest. London Stock Exchange The London Stock Exchange (LSE) was the second largest stock exchange in Europe and ninth globally in terms of market capitalization of domestic listed companies. As of May 2024, there were 1,775 companies trading on the LSE with the LSE's combined market capitalization amounting to approximately 3.86 trillion British pounds during the same period.

The average for 2021 based on 87 countries was 32.21 percent. The highest value was in Venezuela: 991.39 percent and the lowest value was in Botswana: -6.38 percent. The indicator is available from 1984 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The average for 2022 based on 74 countries was 1244.55 billion U.S. dollars. The highest value was in the USA: 40297.98 billion U.S. dollars and the lowest value was in Bermuda: 0.21 billion U.S. dollars. The indicator is available from 1975 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The NYSE US 100 Index tracks the prices of the largest U.S. stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and contains the largest U.S. companies ranked by market capitalization. This statistic illustrates the total return performance of the NYSE US 100 Index as of October 17, 2024. The index showed its highest performance on one-year returns, amounting to ***** percent. Conversely, the lowest performance was recorded for one month returns, with *** percent.

View data of the S&P 500, an index of the stocks of 500 leading companies in the US economy, which provides a gauge of the U.S. equity market.

Based in Toronto, the TMX Canada was the largest stock exchange in the Americas as of December 2024 in terms of companies listed, with *****. The B3 - Brasil Bolsa Balcao was the largest in South America, with *** companies. Stock exchange size The number of companies is a straightforward way to measure the size of a stock exchange, but there are others. For example, market capitalization, or market cap, refers to the number of shares available on the exchange multiplied by the price per share. This paints a picture of the financial size of the exchange. Another metric is the measure of capital raised, which gives an idea of the profitability of the exchange for the companies listed. Why measure stock exchanges? A stock exchange is essentially a place where people can buy shares in a company. In principle, one can go online and buy from any of the exchanges in this statistic. However, companies choose where to offer their stock for a variety of reasons. These initial public offerings (IPOs) take place in the countries chosen by the company as the place in which that company can best earn money. This affects the inflow of money into the market, and a vibrant exchange will help established firms as well. On the supply side, an economy can profit from the securities industry as well. For these reasons and others, analysts pay close attention to the size of exchanges.

France's main stock market index, the FR40, fell to 7546 points on August 1, 2025, losing 2.91% from the previous session. Over the past month, the index has declined 2.48%, though it remains 4.06% higher than a year ago, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from France. France Stock Market Index (FR40) - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.

Indonesia's main stock market index, the JCI, rose to 7538 points on August 1, 2025, gaining 0.71% from the previous session. Over the past month, the index has climbed 9.54% and is up 3.14% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Indonesia. Indonesia Stock Market (JCI) - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.

Israel's main stock market index, the TA-125, fell to 3080 points on July 31, 2025, losing 0.21% from the previous session. Over the past month, the index has climbed 1.83% and is up 56.58% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Israel. Israel Stock Market (TA-125) - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.

Russia's main stock market index, the MOEX, fell to 2729 points on August 1, 2025, losing 0.12% from the previous session. Over the past month, the index has declined 3.07% and is down 5.87% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Russia. Russia Stock Market Index MOEX CFD - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.

This table contains 25 series, with data for years 1956 - present (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Toronto Stock Exchange Statistics (25 items: Standard and Poor's/Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index; high; Standard and Poor's/Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index; close; Toronto Stock Exchange; oil and gas; closing quotations; Standard and Poor's/Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index; low ...).

Context

The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE) is an Indian stock exchange located at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. National Stock Exchange (NSE) was established in 1992 as a demutualized electronic exchange. It was promoted by leading financial institutions on request of the Government of India. It is India’s largest exchange by turnover. In 1994, it launched electronic screen-based trading. Thereafter, it went on to launch index futures and internet trading in 2000, which were the first of its kind in the country.

With the help of NSE, you can trade in the following segments:

• Equities

• Indices

• Mutual Funds

• Exchange Traded Funds

• Initial Public Offerings

• Security Lending and Borrowing Scheme

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Companies on successful IPOs gets their Stocks traded over different Stock Exchnage platforms. NSE is one important platofrm in India. There are thousands of companies trading their stocks in NSE. But, I have chosen two popular and high rated IT service companies of India; TCS and INFOSYS. and the third one is the benchmark for Indian IT companies , i.e. NIFTY_IT_INDEX .

Content

The dataset contains three csv files. Each resembling to INFOSYS, NIFTY_IT_INDEX, and TCS, respectively. One can easily identify that by the name of CSV files.

Timeline of Data recording : 1-1-2015 to 31-12-2015.

Source of Data : Official NSE website.

Method : We have used the NSEpy api to fetch the data from NSE site. I have also mentioned my approach in this Kernel - "**WebScraper to download data for NSE**". Please go though that to better understand the nature of this dataset.

Shape of Dataset:

INFOSYS - 248 x 15 || NIFTY_IT_INDEX - 248 x 7 || **TCS - 248 x 15

• Colum Descriptors:

• Date: date on which data is recorded

• Symbol: NSE symbol of the stock

• Series: Series of that stock | EQ - Equity

OTHER SERIES' ARE:

EQ: It stands for Equity. In this series intraday trading is possible in addition to delivery.

BE: It stands for Book Entry. Shares falling in the Trade-to-Trade or T-segment are traded in this series and no intraday is allowed. This means trades can only be settled by accepting or giving the delivery of shares.

BL: This series is for facilitating block deals. Block deal is a trade, with a minimum quantity of 5 lakh shares or minimum value of Rs. 5 crore, executed through a single transaction, on the special “Block Deal window”. The window is opened for only 35 minutes in the morning from 9:15 to 9:50AM.

BT: This series provides an exit route to small investors having shares in the physical form with a cap of maximum 500 shares.

GC: This series allows Government Securities and Treasury Bills to be traded under this category.

IL: This series allows only FIIs to trade among themselves. Permissible only in those securities where maximum permissible limit for FIIs is not breached.

• Prev Close: Last day close point

• Open: current day open point

• High: current day highest point

• Low: current day lowest point

• Last: the final quoted trading price for a particular stock, or stock-market index, during the most recent day of trading.

• Close: Closing point for the current day

• VWAP: volume-weighted average price is the ratio of the value traded to total volume traded over a particular time horizon

• Volume: the amount of a security that was traded during a given period of time. For every buyer, there is a seller, and each transaction contributes to the count of total volume.

• Turnover: Total Turnover of the stock till that day

• Trades: Number of buy or Sell of the stock.

• Deliverable: Volumethe quantity of shares which actually move from one set of people (who had those shares in their demat account before today and are selling today) to another set of people (who have purchased those shares and will get those shares by T+2 days in their demat account).

• %Deliverble: percentage deliverables of that stock

Acknowledgements

I woul dlike to acknowledge all my sincere thanks to the brains behind NSEpy api, and in particular SWAPNIL JARIWALA , who is also maintaining an amazing open source github repo for this api.

Inspiration

I have also built a starter kernel for this dataset. You can find that right here .

I am so excited to see your magical approaches for the same dataset.

THANKS!

Iran Market Capitalization: Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) data was reported at 1,743.023 USD bn in Sep 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,761.129 USD bn for Aug 2023. Iran Market Capitalization: Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) data is updated monthly, averaging 105.978 USD bn from Dec 2005 (Median) to Sep 2023, with 199 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,991.152 USD bn in May 2023 and a record low of 33.814 USD bn in Jun 2007. Iran Market Capitalization: Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Tehran Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Iran – Table IR.Z002: Tehran Stock Exchange: Market Capitalization. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

The value of global domestic equity market increased from ***** trillion U.S. dollars in 2013 to ****** trillion U.S. dollars in 2024. The United States was by far the leading country with the largest share of total world stocks as of 2024. Global market capitalization in different regions The market capitalization of domestic companies listed varied across different regions of the world. As of Decmber 2024, the Americas region had the largest domestic equity market, totaling ** trillion U.S. dollars. This region is home to the NYSE and Nasdaq, which are the two largest stock exchange operators in the world. The market capitalization of these two exchanges alone exceeded ** billion U.S. dollars as of January 2025, larger than the total market capitalization in the Asia-Pacific, and in the EMEA regions in the same period. Largest Stock Exchanges in Latin America As of December 2024, the B3 (Brasil Bolsa Balcao) was the biggest stock exchange in Latin America in terms of market capitalization and the second-largest in terms of number of listed companies. Following the B3 were the Mexican Stock Exchange and the Santiago Stock Exchange in Chile. The most valuable company in Latin America is listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange: Fomento Económico Mexicano, a multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Monterrey, had a market cap of *** billion U.S. dollars as of March 2025.

Sweden's main stock market index, the Stockholm, fell to 2534 points on August 1, 2025, losing 1.80% from the previous session. Over the past month, the index has climbed 0.45% and is up 2.70% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Sweden. Sweden Stock Market Index - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.

Techsalerator offers an extensive dataset of End-of-Day Pricing Data for all 66 companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (XNAI) in Kenya. This dataset includes the closing prices of equities (stocks), bonds, and indices at the end of each trading session. End-of-day prices are vital pieces of market data that are widely used by investors, traders, and financial institutions to monitor the performance and value of these assets over time.

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Top 5 used data fields in the End-of-Day Pricing Dataset for Kenya:

1. Equity Closing Price :The closing price of individual company stocks at the end of the trading day.This field provides insights into the final price at which market participants were willing to buy or sell shares of a specific company.

2. Bond Closing Price: The closing price of various fixed-income securities, including government bonds, corporate bonds, and municipal bonds. Bond investors use this field to assess the current market value of their bond holdings.

3. Index Closing Price: The closing value of market indices, such as the Botswana stock market index, at the end of the trading day. These indices track the overall market performance and direction.

4. Equity Ticker Symbol: The unique symbol used to identify individual company stocks. Ticker symbols facilitate efficient trading and data retrieval.

5. Date of Closing Price: The specific trading day for which the closing price is provided. This date is essential for historical analysis and trend monitoring.

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Top 5 financial instruments with End-of-Day Pricing Data in Kenya:

Nairobi Securities Exchange All Share Index (NASI): The main index that tracks the performance of all companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). NASI provides insights into the overall market performance in Kenya.

Nairobi Securities Exchange 20 Share Index (NSE 20): An index that tracks the performance of the top 20 companies by market capitalization listed on the NSE. NSE 20 is an important benchmark for the Kenyan stock market.

Safaricom PLC: A leading telecommunications company in Kenya, offering mobile and internet services. Safaricom is one of the largest and most actively traded companies on the NSE.

Equity Group Holdings PLC: A prominent financial institution in Kenya, providing banking and financial services. Equity Group is a significant player in the Kenyan financial sector and is listed on the NSE.

KCB Group PLC: Another major financial institution in Kenya, offering banking and financial services. KCB Group is also listed on the NSE and is among the key players in the country's banking industry.

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If you're interested in accessing Techsalerator's End-of-Day Pricing Data for Kenya, please contact info@techsalerator.com with your specific requirements. Techsalerator will provide you with a customized quote based on the number of data fields and records you need. The dataset can be delivered within 24 hours, and ongoing access options can be discussed if needed.

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Data fields included:

Equity Ticker Symbol Equity Closing Price Bond Ticker Symbol Bond Closing Price Index Ticker Symbol Index Closing Price Date of Closing Price Equity Name Equity Volume Equity High Price Equity Low Price Equity Open Price Bond Name Bond Coupon Rate Bond Maturity Index Name Index Change Index Percent Change Exchange Currency Total Market Capitalization Dividend Yield Price-to-Earnings Ratio (P/E) ‍

Q&A:

1. How much does the End-of-Day Pricing Data cost in Kenya ?

The cost of this dataset may vary depending on factors such as the number of data fields, the frequency of updates, and the total records count. For precise pricing details, it is recommended to directly consult with a Techsalerator Data specialist.

1. How complete is the End-of-Day Pricing Data coverage in Kenya?

Techsalerator provides comprehensive coverage of End-of-Day Pricing Data for various financial instruments, including equities, bonds, and indices. Thedataset encompasses major companies and securities traded on Kenya exchanges.

1. How does Techsalerator collect this data?

Techsalerator collects End-of-Day Pricing Data from reliable sources, including stock exchanges, financial news outlets, and other market data providers. Data is carefully curated to ensure accuracy and reliability.

1. Can I select specific financial instruments or multiple countries with Techsalerator's End-of-Day Pricing Data?

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Italy's main stock market index, the IT40, fell to 40467 points on August 1, 2025, losing 1.27% from the previous session. Over the past month, the index has climbed 1.71% and is up 26.38% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Italy. Italy Stock Market Index (IT40) - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on August of 2025.