Question

The first stock exchange was established in Antwerp, BelgiumAmsterdam, the NetherlandsLondon, England. Brokers, merchants, and investors met at these stock exchanges. The stock exchange helped merchantsbrokersinvestors and companies raise money for their businesses.

Answer 1

The first stock exchange was established in Antwerp, Belgium. Brokers, merchants, and investors met at these stock exchanges. The stock exchange helped merchants and companies raise money for their businesses.

The first stock exchange was founded in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1460, when the city began to buy and sell goods from Venice and was becoming a leading commercial and financial center of Western Europe. The stock exchange helped companies and merchants of England, France, Portuguese, Italy, Spanish, Germany and Belgium itself, to raise money for their business, such as breweries, malt factories, bleaching works, sugar refineries, diamonds industry, etc.

Answer 2

Answer:

The first stock exchange was Amsterdam stock exchange.

Explanation:

Stock Exchange is the facility where the traders can purchase and sell securities, it also provides the facilities for issuing and repeating such securities. It is not mandatory to issue the stocks through the stock exchange, stocks can directly issued to the buyers. They are like continuous auction  markets where buyers and sellers make transaction at central location of electronic platform. Amsterdam stock Exchange and traded the VOC (Dutch East Indias ) securities which included both bonds and shares. It was the first formal stock market.