Bombay Stock Exchange

Bombay Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in Asia with a rich heritage, now spanning three centuries in its 133 years of existence. What is now popularly known as BSE was established as "The Native Share & Stock Brokers' Association" in 1875.

BSE is the first stock exchange in the country which obtained permanent recognition (in 1956) from the Government of India under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act 1956. BSE's pivotal and pre-eminent role in the development of the Indian capital market is widely recognized. It migrated from the open outcry system to an online screen-based order driven trading system in 1995. Earlier an Association Of Persons (AOP), BSE is now a corporatised and demutualised entity incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956, pursuant to the BSE (Corporatisation and Demutualisation) Scheme, 2005 notified by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). With demutualisation, BSE has two of world's best exchanges, Deutsche Börse and Singapore Exchange, as its strategic partners.

Over the past 133 years, BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing it with an efficient access to resources. There is perhaps no major corporate in India which has not sourced BSE's services in raising resources from the capital market.

Today, BSE is the world's number 1 exchange in terms of the number of listed companies and the world's 5th in transaction numbers. The market capitalization as on December 31, 2007 stood at USD 1.79 trillion . An investor can choose from more than 4,700 listed companies, which for easy reference, are classified into A, B, S, T and Z groups.

The BSE Index, SENSEX, is India's first stock market index that enjoys an iconic stature , and is tracked worldwide. It is an index of 30 stocks representing 12 major sectors. The SENSEX is constructed on a 'free-float' methodology, and is sensitive to market sentiments and market realities. Apart from the SENSEX, BSE offers 21 indices, including 12 sectoral indices. BSE has entered into an index cooperation agreement with Deutsche Börse. This agreement has made SENSEX and other BSE indices available to investors in Europe and America. Moreover, Barclays Global Investors (BGI), the global leader in ETFs through its iShares® brand, has created the 'iShares® BSE SENSEX India Tracker' which tracks the SENSEX. The ETF enables investors in Hong Kong to take an exposure to the Indian equity market.

About the Main Market

The Main Market is the Exchange’s flagship international stock market for established companies. It provides the world's premier listing and trading environment for equity, debt and specialist securities and sets the standard for capital markets globally.
Corporate advisers including sponsors, stockbrokers, lawyers, accountants and investor relations/public relations advisers play a key role in enabling companies to list on the Main Market, and in helping them make the most of their quotation once they are listed.

What is Forex

Forex market is an international money market. Forex formed its name from foreign currency exchange operation: FOReign EXchange, or FOREX, for short. Forex is one of the youngest financial markets and has had its present appearance since the 1970s. Due to the sheer volume of the money market, Forex is the most dynamically developing market.

Forex’s daily trading rotations reach 4 trillion USD, that is 30 times more than the general volume of all stock market exchange in the US. Like any other market, Forex trades certain goods. In the case of the money market, these goods consist of national foreign currency. Fundamentally, currency rates are set by government institutions as well as commerce companies all around the world that need to convert currency for trading in foreign countries. They make up 5% of the general currency market rotation volume. The other 95% comes from speculative trading on the part of traders trying to earn profit from buying and selling currency at fluctuation rates. An important money market feature is its steadiness.

The main financial market danger comes from sudden drops, or when the stock index collapses. However unlike the stock market, Forex doesn’t drop. When stocks depreciate, that means a crash is coming. But should the dollar fall, this simply means that some other currency will become stronger.

InstaForex financial world

The InstaForex Company provides a complete spectrum of services for currency trading on the international financial Forex market. The company’s main working directions are: providing qualified investment services aimed at earning speculative profit on international financial trading markets.

Dealing Center InstaForex provides the access to the international trading platforms for internet on-line trading. Our clients operate their capital on the currency market Forex staying at home or office. Besides the receiving information about the latest financial world events and reading the economical forecast, you can also receive training in Forex trading by getting the free demonstrational account on currency market Forex. Cooperation with the West Brokers guarantees covering of all clients? orders on Forex. That is why opening a trading account with InstaForex you get a direct access to the market and currency operations on Forex. No one Forex Broker can guarantee profit. Trading on Forex has some risks of partial or full funds loss. This fact should be taken into consideration by any trader who is planning to make profit on Forex. We provide an opportunity to trade without swap. Nowadays more than 10 000 of traders have chosen InstaForex as their Broker for trading on Forex using MetaTrader platform.

Investor Specification

Foreign Investor - specific:


The foreign investors are freely allowed to operate in the capital market without any retention period.

There are no restrictions on the extent of foreign ownership stake and also no limit for holding the shares for trading purposes.

Funds invested in the capital market are freely transferable along with dividend income.

Foreign investors are treated at par with local investors in tax treatment.

Local Investor specific:


Capital gains on sale of listed securities are exempt from income tax up to the year 2010. This exemption is available since 1974.

The dividend is subject to withholding tax at 10%.

Dividend income is taxed as a separate block of income in the hands of individual shareholders.

Any income derived from TFC's is subject to income tax with effect from income year 2001 – 2002.

Lahore Stock Exchange

Lahore Stock Exchange is the second largest and first automated stock exchange of Pakistan.

We are dynamic and emerging market with large number of listed companies and state of the art technology.

We provide a transparent, fair and geographical independent trading environment to attract retail investors.
Lahore Stock Exchange offers trading in equities and derivatives through following markets

• Regular Market
• Odd Lot Market
• IPO Market
• Future Market (Deliverable and Cash Settled Futures)

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