Tuesday, October 27, 2009

National Stock Exchange - NSE

The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) is the largest financial market in India in terms of daily turnover and number of trades for equities and derivative trading. There are thousands of securities listed on the NSE, with a market capitalization of over $1.46 trillion dollars.The National Stock Exchange of India Limited, NSE was promoted by leading Financial Institutions at the behest of the Government of India and was incorporated in November 1992 as a tax-paying company unlike other stock exchanges in the country.

At present both the retail and institutional investors can participate in equities, equity derivatives, currency and interest rate derivatives, giving them wide range of products to take care of their evolving needs.The National Stock Exchange of India Limited offers the following: establishing a nation-wide trading facility for equities, debt instruments and hybrids,ensuring equal access to investors all over the country through an appropriate communication network, providing a fair, efficient and transparent securities market to investors using electronic trading systems,enabling shorter settlement cycles and book entry settlements systems, and meeting the current international standards of securities markets.
The NSE is owned by a set of leading Indian and International financial institutions, banks, insurance companies, private equity funds, mutual funds, venture capital funds etc. Indian equity markets are today among the most flourishing and vibrant markets in the world with a trading volume of Rs.2,896,194 crore at end March 2009! NSE is ranked first in single stock futures in terms of number of contracts traded, and third in stock index futures and stock index options, rank third in terms of number of equity shares traded and are the eighth largest derivatives exchange in the world. NSE provides a trading platform for of all types of securities for investors under one roof – Equity, Corporate Debt, Central and State Government Securities, T-Bills, Commercial Paper (CPs), Certificate of Deposits (CDs), Warrants, Mutual Funds (MFs) units, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Derivatives like Index Futures, Index Options, Stock Futures, Stock Options and Currency Futures. The Exchange provides trading in 4 different segments viz., Wholesale Debt Market (WDM) segment, Capital Market (CM) segment, Futures & Options (F&O) segment and the Currency Derivatives Segment.

Visit http://www.nseindia.com/ for more details

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