1. Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is the biggest stock exchange in the world in terms of the number of listed companies on an exchange. BSE has over 5,500 listed companies.
2. BSE, which was established in 1875, is also the oldest stock exchange in Asia.
3. The participation of the common people in Indian Stock Market is very less. Less than 2.5% population of India invest in the market.
4. Below are the costliest shares in the Indian Stock Maket:-
- MRF – 68000+ INR
- Honeywell Automation – 29000+ INR
- Shree Cements – 22000+ INR
- Page Industries – 21500+ INR
- 3M India – 20000+ INR
5. India has over 1.3 billion population but there are about 20 million demat accounts.
6. Foreign Institutional Investors are the biggest investors in Indian Stock Market followed by financial institutions and insurance companies and mutual funds.
7. Nifty Futures are the most traded contract in the Indian bourses.
8. NSE has a monopoly in the equity derivatives segment. The futures and options segment contributes roughly 80% to total market turnover and NSE has 90% share of the market.
9. As of Dec 2012, BSE was the tenth and NSE was the eleventh largest stock exchange in the world based on market capitalization.
10. Indian stock markets has three mainstream stock exchanges – BSE, NSE, MCX-SX. NSE leads in terms of turnover followed by BSE/