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Twenty Major Stock Exchanges In The World: Market Capitalization & Year-to-date Turnover at the end of October 2007

Region	Stock Exchange	Market Value (trillions of US dollars)	Total Share Turnover (trillions of US dollars)
Africa	JSE Securities Exchange	$0.940	$0.349
Americas	NASDAQ	$4.39	$12.4
Americas	São Paulo Stock Exchange	$1.40	$0.476
Americas	Toronto Stock Exchange	$2.29	$1.36
Americas/Europe	NYSE Euronext	$20.7	$28.7
Asia-Pacific	Australian Securities Exchange	$1.453	$1.003
South Asia	Bombay Stock Exchange	$1.61	$0.263
Asia-Pacific	Hong Kong Stock Exchange	$2.97	$1.70
Asia-Pacific	Korea Exchange	$1.26	$1.66
South Asia	National Stock Exchange of India	$1.46	$0.564
Asia-Pacific	Shanghai Stock Exchange	$3.02	$3.56
Asia-Pacific	Shenzhen Stock Exchange	$0.741	$1.86
Asia-Pacific	Tokyo Stock Exchange	$4.63	$5.45
Europe	Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse)	$2.12	$3.64
Europe	London Stock Exchange	$4.21	$9.14
Europe	Madrid Stock Exchange (Bolsas y Mercados Españoles)	$1.83	$2.49
Europe	Milan Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana)	$1.13	$1.98
Europe	Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX)	$0.9652	$0.4882
Europe	Nordic Stock Exchange Group OMX1	$1.38	$1.60
Europe	Swiss Exchange	$1.33	$1.58

Note 1: includes the Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland, Stockholm, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius Stock Exchanges
Note 2: latest data available is at the end of June 2007
Note 3: latest data available is at the end of September 2007

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The Forbes Global 2000 - is an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world by Forbes magazine. The ranking is based on a mix of four metrics: Sales, Profit, Assets and Market value. The list has been published since 2003.

The Forbes Global 2000 is a useful indicator of which are the leading public companies in the world, but it is only an interpretation, as only public companies are listed. The results are not definitive; any change to the criteria would produce a different list.

2008 list

Listed below are the top 20 companies featured on the 2008 list.

Rank	Company	Headquarters	Industry	Revenue (billion $)	Profits (billion $)	Assets (billion $)	Market Value (billion $)
1▲	HSBC	UK	Banking	146.5	19.1	2,349.0	180.8
2▲	General Electric	USA	Conglomerate	172.7	22.2	795.3	330.9
3▼	Bank of America	USA	Banking	119.2	15.0	1,715.8	176.5
4▲	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	USA	Banking	116.4	15.4	1,562.2	136.9
5▲	ExxonMobil	USA	Oil and gas	358.6	40.6	242.1	465.5
6▲	Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands	Oil and gas	355.8	31.3	266.2	221.1
7▲	BP	UK	Oil and gas	281.0	20.6	236.1	204.9
8▲	Toyota	Japan	Automotive	203.8	14.0	276.4	175.1
9▲	ING Group	Netherlands	Insurance	197.9	12.7	1,932.2	75.8
10=▲	Berkshire Hathaway	USA	Diversified Financials	118.3	13.2	273.2	216.7
10=▲	Royal Bank of Scotland	UK	Banking	108.5	14.6	3,807.5	76.6
12▲	AT&T	USA	Telecommunications	118.9	12.0	275.6	210.2
13▲	BNP Paribas	France	Banking	116.2	10.7	2,494.4	81.9
14▲	Allianz	Germany	Insurance	139.1	10.9	1,547.5	80.3
15▲	Total S.A.	France	Oil and gas	199.7	19.2	165.8	181.8
16▲	Wal-Mart	USA	Retailing	378.8	12.7	163.4	198.6
17▲	Chevron	USA	Oil and gas	204.0	18.7	148.8	180.0
18▼	American International Group	USA	Insurance	110.1	6.2	1,060.5	118.2
19▲	Gazprom	Russia	Oil and gas	81.8	23.3	201.7	306.8
20▲	AXA	France	Insurance	151.7	7.8	1,064.7	70.3

The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/18/biz_2000global08_The-Global-2000_Rank.html.

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