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● World <strong>Stock</strong> <strong>Exchanges</strong> Map, p.4-5 ● Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange, from past to present, p.6<br />

<strong>Stock</strong> <strong>Exchanges</strong><br />

SPECIAL EDITION<br />

Monthly <strong>Edition</strong> ⎥ Volume I ⎥ Issue 3<br />

November 2018 ⎥ Distributed Freely<br />

TIMELINE Quick Facts<br />

<strong>PHLX</strong> the oldest<br />

stock exchange<br />

in the U.S.<br />

1790<br />

‣ The Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange (<strong>PHLX</strong>), the<br />

earliest stock exchange in the United States, was<br />

established. It was originally named the Board of<br />

Brokers of Philadelphia, also referred to as the<br />

Philadelphia Board of Brokers.<br />

1870<br />

‣ <strong>PHLX</strong> established the first clearing house in the<br />

U.S. The function of the clearing house was to settle<br />

purchases and sales and assist delivery of securities.<br />

1949-1969<br />

‣ <strong>PHLX</strong> merged with the Baltimore <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange<br />

in 1949 and was named the Philadelphia-Baltimore<br />

<strong>Stock</strong> Exchange. It merged with the Washington<br />

<strong>Stock</strong> Exchange in 1954, becoming known as the<br />

Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange.<br />

In 1969, the Exchange acquired the Pittsburgh<br />

<strong>Stock</strong> Exchange.<br />

1975<br />

‣ <strong>PHLX</strong> was one of the first exchanges to embrace<br />

electronic trading, introducing a stock order routing<br />

and execution system called PACE (Philadelphia<br />

Automated Communication and Execution system).<br />

This system linked computers and allowed<br />

for instant electronic order execution.<br />

2004<br />

‣ The Exchange became the first floor-based stock<br />

exchange to transform from that of a seat-based,<br />

cooperative to a share-based for-profit company.<br />

2007<br />

‣ NASDAQ OMX Group purchased <strong>PHLX</strong> for<br />

$652 million in order to diversify by acquiring an<br />

options platform. On July 24, 2008, the acquisition<br />

was completed, creating the third-largest options<br />

market in the U.S.<br />

2014<br />

‣ NASDAQ <strong>PHLX</strong> handled approximately 14 percent<br />

of derivative trades in the U.S., chiefly stock,<br />

currency, and index options.<br />

2017<br />

‣ The Exchange moved to a newlocation. Nasdaq’s<br />

options trading market at 1900 Market Street is<br />

now in the FMC Tower at 30th and Walnut Streets.<br />

As of 2017, NASDAQ <strong>PHLX</strong> run 42 percent of the<br />

nation’s options market share.<br />

2018<br />

‣ NASDAQ celebrated the 10-Year anniversary of<br />

the Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange acquisition.<br />

<strong>PHLX</strong> 2008-2018<br />

Brokers on the trading floor of the Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange<br />

(Photo: Souvenir history, Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange: album of<br />

members; gallery of men of affairs, 1903)<br />

The first stock exchange<br />

in the U.S. was<br />

born in Philadelphia<br />

O<br />

riginally known as the Board of<br />

Brokers, the Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange<br />

(<strong>PHLX</strong>) was the first formal<br />

securities exchange in the U.S.,<br />

founded in 1790, two years before the<br />

New York <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange. The <strong>PHLX</strong> originated<br />

in 1746 when Mayor James Hamilton<br />

donated £150 in startup funds.<br />

“James Hamilton, Esq., Mayor, represented to<br />

the board that as it had been customary for the<br />

mayors of this city, at the going out of their office,<br />

to give an entertainment to the gentlemen<br />

of the corporation, he intended in lieu thereof, to<br />

give a sum of money equal at least to the sum<br />

usually expended on such occasions, to be laid<br />

out in something permanently useful to the city<br />

and proposed the sum of one hundred and fifty<br />

Pounds toward erecting an exchange or other<br />

public building” reads an extract from the minutes<br />

of an October 7, 1746 meeting of the<br />

Philadelphia Board of Aldermen. Other mayors<br />

On 7th November 2007, Nasdaq announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire<br />

The Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange (<strong>PHLX</strong>) for $652 million cash. This resulted in its becoming<br />

the largest electronic stock market, listing over 3,000 firms, and the third largest options market<br />

domestically. As part of the transaction, which closed in July 2008,<br />

Nasdaq also acquired a futures market operated by the Philadelphia Board of Trade, an equities<br />

business, and the <strong>Stock</strong> Clearing Corporation of Philadelphia. Celebrating the 10-year anniversary<br />

of the acquisition of <strong>PHLX</strong>, Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said that it “represented a critical step<br />

forward in Nasdaq’s transformation as a global cash equities and derivatives exchange, and significantly<br />

diversified Nasdaq’s product portfolio by providing us with one of the premier options<br />

trading platforms in the United States.” <strong>PHLX</strong> is also expanding Nasdaq’s foothold in machine<br />

intelligence, mobile technology, and the cloud, providing innovative toolkits to investors.<br />

Research and writing by Kyriaki I. Balkoudi<br />

followed Hamilton’s lead, but the funds ultimately<br />

went to build a new city hall. In 1754<br />

Robert Morris (1734-1806) the “Financier of the<br />

American Revolution”, and local businessmen<br />

raised £348 to finance the opening of the London<br />

Coffee House, which soon became the center<br />

of Philadelphia’s business and political life<br />

attracting merchants, slave traders, and enterprise<br />

owners. When the British occupied<br />

Philadelphia, the London Coffee House remained<br />

closed and the City Tavern, replaced it<br />

as the epicenter of business.<br />

The City Tavern, later named the Merchants Coffee<br />

House, became Philadelphia’s exchange. The<br />

first president of the Exchange was Matthew<br />

McConnell who had served in the French and Indian<br />

War and in the Revolution. Other members<br />

included James Glentworth, Clement Biddle,<br />

Andrew Summers, Jr., Thomas McEwen, George<br />

Eddy, Thomas Orr, William W. Biddle, Thomas<br />

Newman and James McCaragh.<br />

10 Years of <strong>PHLX</strong> as a part of the Nasdaq<br />

<strong>PHLX</strong><br />

Two centuries<br />

of trading on<br />

the <strong>PHLX</strong><br />

T<br />

he Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange<br />

(<strong>PHLX</strong>) played an influential role in<br />

America’s financial and economic<br />

development. In its early days, the<br />

legal concept of a limited-liability corporation<br />

had not yet achieved wide acceptance.<br />

So it was not corporate stocks, but rather<br />

government and semigovernment instruments,<br />

such as bonds, notes, and bills that<br />

traded on the Exchange.<br />

In 1796, a more-restrictive exchange debuted,<br />

setting an entrance fee for brokers.<br />

As of January 1, 1874, the par price for<br />

membership in the Philadelphia Board of<br />

Brokers was $1,000, with 198 seats, and<br />

“not others are attainable under $2,000<br />

each.” The board represented a market capital<br />

of around $350,000 according to the article<br />

“The Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Board”<br />

published in The New York Times on 1st<br />

January in 1874.<br />

During the<br />

nineteenth century,<br />

the Exchange<br />

and its<br />

members invested<br />

in making<br />

Philadelphia<br />

the center of industrial<br />

America,<br />

raising capital for public works projects<br />

such as the Philadelphia and Lancaster<br />

Turnpike Company- America’ first turnpike-<br />

railroads and coal mines that connected<br />

cities to one another and built a fossil<br />

fuel-based economy.<br />

The Exchange also handled bank and insurance<br />

stocks, permitting firms to acquire<br />

much needed financial capital. These included<br />

The First Bank of the United States,<br />

the Pennsylvania Bank, and the Philadelphia<br />

Bank, as well as The Pennsylvania<br />

Company for Insurance on Lives and<br />

Granted Annuities, and The Insurance Company<br />

of North America.<br />

At the turn of the twentieth century, stagnation<br />

of the Exchange contributed to<br />

Philadelphia’s loss of power in the national<br />

and world economy. However, in the 1920s,<br />

the volume of trading on the <strong>PHLX</strong>, as on<br />

many other regional exchanges, increased<br />

dramatically. Between 1930 and 1960 when<br />

most of the regional exchanges saw a fairly<br />

consistent decline in their market share, the<br />

<strong>PHLX</strong> managed to survive.<br />

Trading on the <strong>PHLX</strong> boomed between the<br />

early 1960s and 1972.Over most of the<br />

1980s and 1990s, the <strong>PHLX</strong> saw the volume<br />

of its equity trading grow, as did all<br />

stock exchanges in the generally booming<br />

markets. In September, 1990, the <strong>PHLX</strong> became<br />

the first exchange in the world to offer<br />

around-the-clock trading by bridging the<br />

gap between the night session and the early<br />

morning hours. In the twenty first century<br />

<strong>PHLX</strong> introduced Exchange Traded Funds<br />

(ETF’s), NASDAQ listed stocks and making<br />

order flow arrangements with Electronic<br />

Communication Networks (ECN’s).


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World <strong>Stock</strong> <strong>Exchanges</strong><br />

4 November 2018<br />

1AMERICAS<br />

2<br />

EUROPE<br />

NORTH AMERICA<br />

0. BAHAMAS Nassau BISX<br />

1. BARBADOS Saint Michael BSE<br />

2. BERMUDA Hamilton BSX<br />

3. CANADA Toronto TSX<br />

4. CAYMAN ISLANDS Grand Cayman SXE<br />

5. DOMINICAN REP. S.Domingo BVRD<br />

6. EL SALVADOR San Salvador BVES<br />

7. GUATEMALA Guatemala City BNV<br />

8. JAMAICA Kingston JSE<br />

9. MEXICO Mexico City BMV<br />

10. MEXICO Mexico City BIVA<br />

11. NICARAGUA Managua BVDN<br />

12. PANAMA Panama City BVP<br />

13. SAINT KITTS & NEVIS Basseterre ECSE<br />

14. TRINIDAD & TOBAGO P. of Spain TTSE<br />

15. UNITED STATES Chicago CHX<br />

16. UNITED STATES New York NASDAQ<br />

17. UNITED STATES New York NYSE<br />

SOUTH AMERICA<br />

18. ARGENTINA Buenos Aires BCBA<br />

19. BRAZIL Sao Paulo BOVESPA<br />

20. CHILE Santiago SSE<br />

21. COLOMBIA Bogota BVC<br />

22. .EQUADOR Quito BVQ<br />

23. .HONDURAS Tagucigalpa BVC<br />

24. PARAGUAY Asuncion BVPASA<br />

25. PERU Lima BVL<br />

26. URUGUAY Montevideo BVM<br />

27. VENEZUELA Caracas BVC<br />

46<br />

28. ALBANIA Tirana ALSE<br />

29. AUSTRIA Vienna WIENER BORSE<br />

30. BELARUS Minsk BCSE<br />

31. BELGIUM Brussels EURONEXT<br />

32. BOSNIA-HERZEG.Banja Luka BLSE<br />

32a.BOSNIA-HERZEG. Sarajevo SASE<br />

33. BULGARIA Sofia BSE<br />

34. CHANNEL ISLANDS Guernsey TISE<br />

35. CROATIA Zagreb ZSE<br />

36. CYPRUS Nicosia CSE<br />

37. CZECH REPUBLIC Prague PSE<br />

15<br />

NEW YORK CITY<br />

Nasaq <strong>PHLX</strong><br />

PHILADELPHIA<br />

16<br />

16 A<br />

TORONTO<br />

17<br />

2<br />

3<br />

NEW YORK CITY<br />

LONDON<br />

MADRID<br />

58<br />

47<br />

ZURICH<br />

102<br />

34<br />

43<br />

AMSTERDAM<br />

65<br />

70<br />

41<br />

86<br />

STOCKHOLM<br />

56<br />

66<br />

38<br />

55 42<br />

FRANKFU<br />

31 42a 37 57<br />

51<br />

29 63 67 64 45<br />

67a<br />

48 35 5462<br />

32a<br />

32<br />

5<br />

28<br />

114<br />

53<br />

98<br />

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9<br />

7<br />

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11<br />

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27<br />

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24<br />

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World<br />

<strong>Stock</strong><br />

<strong>Exchanges</strong><br />

Map<br />

This map shows the stock exchanges around the<br />

world. The 20 largest by market capitalization of listed<br />

companies are marked with their logo, the city they are<br />

located and a bold number in a circle. All are presented<br />

in alphabetical order by continent, country and<br />

city. As of August 2018, the NYSE ranked as the largest<br />

by market capitalisation with a value of tradable<br />

shares amounting to 24.23 trillion U.S. dollars.<br />

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SAO PAULO<br />

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AFRICA<br />

84. SOUTH SUDAN Juba To be launched<br />

85. ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa ECX<br />

86. ALGERIA Algiers IL BOURSA<br />

87. ANGOLA Luanda BOVIDA<br />

88. BOTSWANA Gaborone BSE<br />

89. CAPE VERDE Mindelo BVC<br />

90. CAMEROON Duala DSX<br />

91. COTE D'IVOIRE Abidjan BRVM *<br />

92. EGYPT Alexandria EGX<br />

93. EGYPT Cairo EGX<br />

94. GABONE Libreville BVMAC **<br />

95. GHANA Accra GSE<br />

96. KENYA Nairobi NSE<br />

97 LESOTHO Maseru MSM<br />

98. LIBYA Tripoli LSM<br />

99. MADAGASCAR Antananarivo MEX<br />

100. MALAWI Blantyre MSE<br />

101. MAURITIUS Port Louis SEM<br />

102. MOROCCO Casablanca CASA SE<br />

103. MOZAMBIQUE Maputo BVM<br />

104. NAMIBIA Windhoek NSX<br />

105. NIGERIA Abuja ASCE<br />

106. NIGERIA Lagos NSE<br />

107. RWANDA Kigali RSE<br />

108. SEYCHELLES Victoria SSE<br />

109. SOMALIA Mogadishu SSE<br />

110. SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg JSE<br />

111. SUDAN Khartoum KSE<br />

112. SWAZILAND Mbabane SSX<br />

113. TANZANIA Dar Es Salaam DSE<br />

114. TUNISIA Tunis BVMT<br />

115. UGANDA Kampala USE<br />

116. UGANDA Kampala ALTX<br />

117. ZAMBIA Lusaka LUSE<br />

118. ZIMBABWE Harare ZSE<br />

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November 2018 World <strong>Stock</strong> <strong>Exchanges</strong><br />

5<br />

3<br />

EURASIA<br />

E<br />

SE<br />

E<br />

SE<br />

LM<br />

**<br />

38. DENMARK Copenhagen NASDAQ<br />

39. ESTONIA Tallinn NASDAQ<br />

40. FINLAND Helsinki NASDAQ<br />

41. FRANCE Paris EURONEXT<br />

42. GERMANY Frankfurt FWB<br />

42a.GERMANY Hamburg BOERSE<br />

43. GIBRALTAR Europort GSX<br />

44. GREECE Athens ATHEX<br />

45. HUNGARY Budapest BSE<br />

46 ICELAND Reykjavik NASDAQ<br />

47. IRELAND Dublin EURONEXT<br />

40<br />

61<br />

39<br />

50 60<br />

30<br />

NKFURT<br />

57<br />

69<br />

3<br />

45<br />

62 59<br />

32<br />

a 33<br />

52<br />

28<br />

68<br />

44<br />

36 78<br />

76 75<br />

80 73 74<br />

92<br />

77<br />

93<br />

72<br />

82 81<br />

83<br />

111<br />

71<br />

69 70<br />

79<br />

48. ITALY Milan BORSA ITALIANA<br />

49. LATVIA Riga NASDAQ<br />

50. LITHUANIA Vilnius NASDAQ<br />

51. LUXEMBOURG Lux/urg City LUXSE<br />

52. MACEDONIA Skopje MSE<br />

53. MALTA Valletta MSE<br />

54. MONTENEGRO Podgorica MNSE<br />

55. NETHERLANDS AmsterdamEuRONEXT<br />

56. NORWAY Oslo OSLO BORS<br />

57. POLAND Warsaw GPW<br />

58. PORTUGAL Lisbon EURONEXT<br />

133<br />

152<br />

142<br />

143<br />

134<br />

150<br />

144<br />

127<br />

128<br />

141<br />

MUMBAI<br />

MUMBAI<br />

120<br />

138<br />

122<br />

121<br />

139<br />

59. ROMANIA Bucharest BVB<br />

60. RUSSIA Moscow MOEX<br />

61. RUSSIA Saint Petersburg SPB<br />

62. SERBIA Belgrade BSE<br />

63. SLOVAKIA Bratislava BSSE<br />

64. SLOVENIA Ljubljana LJSE<br />

65. SPAIN Madrid BME<br />

66. SWEDEN <strong>Stock</strong>holm NASDAQ<br />

67. SWITZERLAND Zurich SIX<br />

67a. SWITZERLAND Bern BX SWISS<br />

69. TURKEY Istanbul BORSA ISTANBUL<br />

SHENZHEN<br />

SHANGHAI<br />

135<br />

151<br />

123<br />

125 147<br />

153<br />

124<br />

126<br />

BUSAN<br />

149<br />

136<br />

130<br />

131<br />

132<br />

HONG KONG<br />

TAIPEI<br />

4<br />

69. ARMENIA Yerevan NASDAQ<br />

70. AZERBAIJAN Baku BSE<br />

71. GEORGIA Tbilisi GSE<br />

MIDDLE EAST<br />

72. BAHRAIN Manama BHB<br />

73. JORDAN Amman ASE<br />

74. IRAN Tehran TSE<br />

75. IRAQ Baghdad ISX<br />

76. ISRAEL Tel Aviv TASE<br />

77. KUWAIT Kuwait City BK<br />

78. LEBANON Beirut BSE<br />

79. OMAN Muscat MSM<br />

80. PALESTINE Ramallah PEX<br />

81. QATAR Doha QSE<br />

82. SAUDI ARABIA Riyadh TADAWUL<br />

83. UAE Abu Dhabi ADX<br />

TOKYO<br />

**<br />

**<br />

88<br />

117<br />

97<br />

84<br />

107<br />

118<br />

116<br />

115<br />

100<br />

103<br />

112<br />

113<br />

JOHANNESBURG<br />

85<br />

96<br />

99<br />

109<br />

108<br />

101<br />

* The Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières,<br />

or BRVM, located in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire serves<br />

the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau,<br />

Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.<br />

** The Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières<br />

d'Afrique Centrale, orBVMAC, located in Libreville,<br />

Gabon serves the Central African Republic,<br />

Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial<br />

Guinea and Gabon.<br />

6<br />

137<br />

148<br />

ASIA PACIFIC<br />

119. AUSTRALIA Sydney ASX<br />

120. BANGLADESH Dhaka DSE<br />

121. BANGLADESH Chittagong CSE<br />

122. BHUTAN Thimphu RSEBL<br />

123. CAMBODIA Phom Penh CSX<br />

124. CHINA Shanghai SSE<br />

125. CHINA Shenzhen SZSE<br />

126. HONG KONG Hong Kong HKEX<br />

127. INDIA Mumbai NSE<br />

128. INDIA Mumbai BSE<br />

129. INDONESIA Jakarta IDX<br />

130. JAPAN Fukuoka FSE<br />

131. JAPAN Nagoya NSE<br />

132. JAPAN Tokyo TSE<br />

133. KAZAKHSTAN Almaty KASE<br />

134. KYRGYZSTAN Bishkek KSE<br />

135. LAOS Vientiane LSX<br />

136. MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur BM<br />

137. MALDIVES Male MSE<br />

138. MONGOLIA Ulaanbaatar MSE<br />

139. MYANMAR Vientiane LSX<br />

140. NEW ZEALAND Wellington NZX<br />

141. NEPAL Kathmandu NEPSE<br />

142. PAKISTAN Karachi PSE<br />

143. PAKISTAN Lahore PSE<br />

144. PAKISTAN Islamabad PSE<br />

145. PHILIPPINES Manila PSE<br />

146. SINGAPORE Singapore SGX<br />

147. SOUTH KOREA Busan KREX<br />

148. SRI LANKA Colombo CSE<br />

149. TAIWAN Taipei TPEX<br />

150. TAJIKISTAN Dushanbe CASE<br />

151. THAILAND Bangkong SET<br />

152. UZBEKISTAN Tashkent UZSE<br />

153. VIETNAM Ho Chi Minh City HOSE<br />

145<br />

146<br />

129<br />

SYDNEY<br />

119<br />

140<br />

For any corrections regarding the<br />

stock exchanges on this map contact:<br />

editorial@investopress.com


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November 2018<br />

HEADQUARTERS<br />

Locations of the<br />

Philadelphia<br />

<strong>Stock</strong> Exchange<br />

From the Merchants' Coffee<br />

House to the FMC Tower<br />

Over its 228 years the Philadephia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange<br />

(<strong>PHLX</strong>) has had a variety of names<br />

and office locations.<br />

At its founding in 1790, the Board of Brokers was located<br />

in the City Tavern- a place frequented by the<br />

Founding Fathers of the United States and other distinctive<br />

people- at the corner of Second and Walnut<br />

Streets. Members of the Philadelphia Exchange met<br />

at City Tavern so frequently it was often referred to<br />

as the Merchants' Coffee House. This building was<br />

severely damaged by a fire in 1834, but fortunately,<br />

in 1831, Stephen Girard (1750-1831), the nation's<br />

wealthiest man at the time, formed the Philadelphia<br />

Merchants’ Exchange Company with the intention of<br />

erecting a new building to house the Board of Brokers<br />

and other groups.<br />

In 1832, the Exchange began to build its headquarters<br />

based on drawings by architect William Strickland .<br />

The Board of Brokers moved into the Merchants Exchange<br />

Building at 3rd and Dock Streets in 1834 following<br />

the fire at the Merchants Coffee House. Built<br />

between 1832 and 1834, the Merchants’ Exchange<br />

Building has been declared a National Historic Landmark.<br />

In 1876, the Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange<br />

moved to the rear of the Girard Bank Building, formerly<br />

the First Bank of the U.S.where it stayed until<br />

1888. In 1888, the Exchange moved to the Drexel<br />

Building which was demolished in 1959 to make way<br />

for the new Library Hall. Between 1902 and 1912, the<br />

Exchange returned to the Merchants Exchange<br />

Building.<br />

In 1913, it moved to a building at 1411 Walnut St. In<br />

1951, it moved to the Central Penn Bank Building at<br />

1401 Walnut Street. It stayed there until 1966 when it<br />

moved to a newly constructed building at 17th and<br />

Sansom. In December 1968, the City of Philadelphia<br />

faced a fiscal crisis, resulting in a a 5-cent-per-share<br />

stock-transfer tax imposed on every transaction on the<br />

<strong>PHLX</strong>. In reply, on 2nd January 1969, the Exchange<br />

moved its trading floor to Bala<br />

Cynwyd, just outside Philadelphia’s<br />

border to avoid the tax.<br />

Three months later, a state<br />

court ruled that the tax was illegal,<br />

and the <strong>PHLX</strong> returned<br />

to Philadelphia. In<br />

1981, the <strong>PHLX</strong> moved to<br />

a location at an office<br />

building at Market and<br />

Nineteenth Streets in<br />

Center City where it<br />

stayed until 2017<br />

when it moved to its<br />

current location.<br />

Photo:<br />

FMC Tower,<br />

<strong>PHLX</strong> Nasdaq<br />

headquarters<br />

WORLD MARKETS<br />

The rich history<br />

of the first U.S.<br />

securities exchange<br />

❥ As the financial community continues to evolve,<br />

<strong>PHLX</strong> continues to hold its proud place in the<br />

capital markets<br />

T<br />

he Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange<br />

(<strong>PHLX</strong>) dates its founding to 1790,<br />

making it the oldest organised stock exchange<br />

in the U.S. and the third-oldest<br />

globally, after the Amsterdam Exchange<br />

(1602) and Paris Bourse (1724). In fact, the earliest<br />

known record of securities quotations in the<br />

United States is the "Price Current of <strong>Stock</strong>s,"<br />

printed on three-by-six inch paper and signed by<br />

Samuel Anderson, <strong>Stock</strong> Broker, at Number 104<br />

Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. It is dated April 10,<br />

1792. The Exchange provided an efficient source<br />

of capital for needed public works, such as the<br />

Pennsylvania Railroad and the Philadelphia Railway,<br />

utility systems, canals and real estate development.<br />

It also helped the nation raise funds<br />

to establish new commercial banks and insurance<br />

companies.<br />

Starting in 1846, the telegraph allowed investors<br />

to have quick access to stock quotes and news,<br />

bringing a new openness to the business of the<br />

Exchange. <strong>PHLX</strong> closed for four months in 1914<br />

because of World War I market turmoil. It also<br />

closed during the 1933 Bank Holiday. Following<br />

World War II, the Exchange began to reach out<br />

beyond Philadelphia, growing through mergers.<br />

Philadelphia merged with the Baltimore <strong>Stock</strong><br />

Exchange in 1949, and with the Washington<br />

(D.C.) <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange in 1953. Through associate<br />

membership agreements, Philadelphia expanded<br />

its trading base to Pittsburgh, Boston, and<br />

Montreal. From 1953- 1976 the exchange was<br />

called the Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington<br />

<strong>Stock</strong> Exchange (PBW).<br />

A<br />

n increasing use of computers during the<br />

1960's and 1970's changed every business,<br />

and Philadelphia was among the<br />

first exchanges to engage in electronic<br />

trading. In 1975, <strong>PHLX</strong> introduced a<br />

computerized order-handling and execution system<br />

called PACE (Philadelphia Automated Communication<br />

and Execution System). PACE would<br />

NASDAQ <strong>PHLX</strong> on the cutting<br />

edge of technology<br />

provide electronic execution of stock orders instantly.<br />

In the same year the <strong>PHLX</strong> began to trade<br />

options on equities, the third exchange doing so,<br />

after the Chicago Board Options Exchange<br />

(CBOE) and the American <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange<br />

(AMEX). In 1976, its Board of Governors restored<br />

its original name, the Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong><br />

Exchange. On 27th February 1976 exchange vice<br />

president Gordon Yocum explained to the<br />

Philadelphia Inquirer, “While the acronym<br />

[PBW] suited us, the board felt we needed a<br />

name more appropriate for our...history.”<br />

I<br />

In December 1982, the <strong>PHLX</strong> opened its<br />

currency options trading floor. By 1988,<br />

currency options were trading in volumes<br />

as high as $4 billion per day in underlying<br />

value. The introduction of Sector Index<br />

Options in the 1990s, consisting of indexes such<br />

as the Gold/Silver Sector (XAU), KBW Bank<br />

Index (BKX), Utility Sector (UTY), and Insurance<br />

Index (KIX), made <strong>PHLX</strong> an industry<br />

leader in sectors index options trading by allowing<br />

investors to use options trading for diverse industries<br />

and commodities. The exchange grew<br />

even more through the creation of UCOM<br />

(United Currency Options Market) in November<br />

1994. UCOM was the first market in the world<br />

to offer customisable currency options in an exchange<br />

environment.<br />

In the twenty first century <strong>PHLX</strong> introduced Exchange<br />

Traded Funds (ETF's), NASDAQ listed<br />

stocks and making order flow arrangements with<br />

Electronic Communication Networks (ECN's).<br />

In a major move in 2006, the exchange halted the<br />

traditional floor trading that started in 1790.<br />

During its more than 200 years of history, <strong>PHLX</strong>,<br />

as one of North America’s primary marketplaces<br />

has held on to its determination to provide an efficient<br />

and transparent service to its listed companies,<br />

brokers and investors, encompassing new<br />

ideas and solutions.<br />

■ NASDAQ <strong>PHLX</strong>, Inc. trades on equity<br />

options, index options, and U.S. dollarsettled<br />

currency options. It offers equity<br />

options; various derivatives offerings,<br />

including FX options<br />

providing retail and institutional<br />

traders with the opportunity to<br />

trade options on major foreign<br />

currencies; and sector index<br />

options. The company also<br />

distributes market data products,<br />

including futures<br />

trading market data and<br />

sector index spot and settlement<br />

values data. It provides electronic<br />

and floor-based trade.<br />

■ NASDAQ <strong>PHLX</strong>, Inc. operates<br />

as a subsidiary of Nasdaq Inc., the<br />

creator of the world's first electronic<br />

stock market. Its technology<br />

powers more than 70<br />

marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1<br />

in 10 of the world's securities transactions.<br />

Nasdaq is home to more than<br />

3,600 listed companies with a market<br />

value of approximately $9.6 trillion.<br />

References: ● John P. Caskey, “The Evolution of the Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange: 1964-<br />

2002,” Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Working Paper 03-21, August 2003. ● Domenic Vitiello<br />

with George E. Thomas, “The Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange and the City It Made”, University<br />

of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 ● Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange Papers (1746-2005), Collection 3070,<br />

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2006 ● E.P. Goodman, "History of the Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong><br />

Exchange", Press of the Northern Printing House, 1903.<br />

PHOTO-Archive<br />

<strong>PHLX</strong>,<br />

from past to<br />

present<br />

The Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange, an occasionally<br />

mobile institution, migrated among the<br />

First Bank of the United States, the Sofitel<br />

tower and other landmarks since its founding at<br />

City Tavern.<br />

London Coffee House<br />

Lithograph by Kennedy & Lucas depicting the<br />

London Coffee House, the centre of Philadelphia’s<br />

business life, as it stood in 1830.<br />

Merchants' Exchange<br />

Building (A)<br />

Employing mainly marble, architect William<br />

Strickland (1788-1854), based the design on<br />

classical Greek models.<br />

Merchants' Exchange<br />

Building (B)<br />

The front of the Merchants’ Exchange Building,<br />

located on the triangular site bounded by Dock<br />

Street, Third Street, and Walnut Street.<br />

Board Room<br />

The Board Room of the Merchants' Exchange<br />

Building. Pictures from Souvenir History<br />

Philadelphia <strong>Stock</strong> Exchange

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