The New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) is the largest stock exchange in the World, with a market capitalization of 28.36 trillion dollars as of September 2021. With 2400 companies listed on the NYSE, These firms are diversified across all sectors, and a principal percentage of the World's top blue-chip stocks, Johnson & Johnson, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase & Co., are listed on the NYSE.

A few of the indices that are used to gauge the performance of the trades being undertaken on the NYSE on a particular day are NYSE Composite Index, NYSE U.S. 100 Index, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and S&P 500 Index.

Location: 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, The US.

Founded: May 17, 1792.

Market cap: 28.36 trillion dollars

Trading schedule: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM ET for its core trading session. This translates to 7:00 PM to 3:30 AM IST

Website: https://www.nyse.com

The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ) is the second-largest stock exchange in the World with a market capitalization of 22.33 trillion dollars, and also is the World's first electronically traded stock market. There are over 3,000 companies listed on NASDAQ, involving the World's biggest tech giants- Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. All four companies have a market capitalization of over 1 trillion dollars, except for Facebook.

NASDAQ has achieved a lot of interest in recent years, and the interest started around the period of the dot-com bubble in the late 90s. It continues its rise to an increasing interest from the market participants with the advancements in technology and the betterment for the U.S. and the World along with the same.

Location: 151 W, 42nd Street, New York City, the US.
Founded: February 8, 1971
Market cap: 22.33 trillion dollars
Trading schedule: Pre-market trading hours are 4:00 am to 9:30 am, Eastern Time Zone. After hours runs from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Website: https://www.nasdaq.com

Shanghai Stock Exchange(SSE) is the largest stock exchange of the World's most populated nation - China. Additionally, it comes under the category of the three largest stock exchanges in the World with a market capitalization of 7.81 trillion dollars.

Notably, the SSE possesses less than a third of the market capitalization of the first and second-biggest equity bourses in the World based in the United States. Over 1500 companies are listed on it, and its Composite Index is used to look at the broad sentiment of this exchange, including Huge large-cap stocks, PetroChina, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and Agriculture Bank of China.

Location: Shanghai, China
Founded: November 26, 1990
Market cap: 7.81trillion dollars
Trading schedule:Monday through Friday, with the exception of public holidays and other closing days declared by the Exchange in advance.
Website:http://english.sse.com.cn

Euronext(ENX) stands for European New Exchange Technology. As a pan-European stock exchange, it is the largest and most liquid stock exchange in Europe and the 4th largest stock exchange in the world.

ENX headquarters are in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Nearly 1,900 issuers are listed on it with a market capitalization of $7.03 trillion dollars in September 2021. The top five companies listed on EURONEXT (by market cap) are Procter & Gamble, LVMH, Royal Dutch Shell and Merck & Co., and L'Oreal

Headquarter: Paris, France (operational headquarters)Euronext Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (registered office)

Founded: September 22, 2000

Market cap: $7.03 trillion dollars

Trading schedule: Its normal hours of operation were 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays except for holidays, similar to other exchanges.

Website: www.euronext.com

On January 1, 2013, The Japan Exchange Group(JPX) was formed by the merger of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange, thus bringing its market capitalization to 6.93 trillion dollars which is very close to that of the third and fifth-largest stock exchanges in the World by market capitalization.

More than 3,700 companies are listed on the JPX with almost all of these companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The prominent index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange is Nikkei, and Toyota, Suzuki, Honda, Mitsubishi, and Sony are a few of the eminent companies listed here.

Location: Head Office, 2-1 Nihombashi Kabutocho, Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-8220 Japan
Founded: January 1, 2013
Market cap: 6.93 trillion dollars
Trading schedule: Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 11:30 am and 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm Japan Standard Time (GMT+09:00)
Website: https://www.jpx.co.jp

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) is one of the two major independently operating stock exchanges in mainland China.
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is the smallest out of the three exchanges in this populous nation. Yet, it has a market capitalization of US$5.69 trillion dollars, making it the 6th largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization.

Small and emerging enterprises trade on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), and individual investors make up the majority of investors on the exchange. Founded on December 1, 1990, and SZSE has almost 2300 listed companies. The total market capitalization of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Hong Kong Exchange, and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange would be approximately equal to the market capitalization of NASDAQ.

Location: LocationShenzhen, China
Founded: December 1, 1990
Market cap: US$5.69 trillion dollars
Trading schedule: Monday through Friday from 9:30am to 11:30am and 1:00pm to 2:57pm China Standard Time (GMT+08:00)
Website: www.szse.cn/English/index.html

Hong Kong is undoubtedly of the World's important financial hubs. Hong Kong provides an all-encompassing and high-quality financial environment to people working in the financial industry. Owing to this, it has attracted a lot of foreign market participants. With a total market capitalization of 5.67 trillion dollars, the HKE is the World's seventh largest and Asia's second-largest stock exchange in september 2021.

HKE is almost as big as the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and provided it keeps up the enormous pace at which it has developed in the past; it can exceed the Shanghai Stock Exchange in the near future. There are 2000 companies listed on the Hong Kong Exchange, of which AIA, Tencent Holdings are the largest ones.

Location: Central District, Hong Kong
Founded: February 3, 1891
Market cap: 5.67 trillion dollars
Trading schedule: Monday through Friday from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Hong Kong Standard Time (GMT+08:00)
Website: https://www.hkex.com.hk

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a London-based stock exchange and financial information company. It owns the London Stock Exchange, Refinitiv, LSEG Technology, and FTSE Russell and has control over LCH and Tradeweb.

With a market capitalization of $ 3.69 trillion in September 2021, Over 1,300 companies located in the heart of the world's financial centers are listed on the LSEG involving Barclays, British Petroleum, Toyota Motor Corporation, Unilever, HSBC, and AstraZeneca.

Headquarter: Paternoster SquareLondon, England, UK

Founded: 23 June 2007

Market cap: $ 3.69 trillion dollars

Trading schedule: Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 12:00pm and 12:02pm to 4:30pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+00:00).

Website: www.lseg.com

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) was founded in 1992 and started trading in 1994. The NSE is India's largest financial market and the fourth largest market by trading volume and is also under the ownership of several prime Financial Institutions, Banks, and Insurance companies.

It stands to reason that the NSE is the largest stock market, in terms of volume and is well-known as the largest private wide-area network in India. To be specific. NSE has a total market capitalization of more than US$3.48 trillion, making it the world's 9th-largest stock exchange as of September 2021. The NSDL's security, combined with the transparency, lower transaction prices, and efficiency that NSE offered, greatly increased the attractiveness of the Indian stock market to domestic and international investors.

Location: NSE locates in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Founded: 1992

Market cap: US$3.48 trillion

Trading schedule: All days of the week (except Saturdays and Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance)

Website: www.nseindia.com, www1.nseindia.com

Canada is home to the world's 10th largest stock exchange - Toronto-based TMX Group. TMX Group owns two stock exchanges in Canada.

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) serves major stock markets (mid-and large-cap companies are listed here) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) serves public venture capital markets (small stocks). companies are listed here). It has a market cap of $3.09 trillion with 1500 companies listed on the TSX and about 1600 companies listed on the TSXV, including Fortis, CGI, National Bank of Canada, FrancoNevada and Rogers.

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded: 25 October 1861
Market cap: $3.09 trillion
Trading schedule: 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday to Friday
Website: www.tmx.com