Size

• According to the World Federation of Exchanges, the total global market capitalization in January 2010 was $46.634 trillion. The WFE consists of 54 stock markets that make up the regulated stock markets of the world. Regional breakdowns show the Americas' market capitalization at $18.985 trillion, the Asia and Pacific region with a market cap of $14.099 trillion and Europe, the Middle East and Africa finished January 2010 with $13.549 trillion of stock market value.
  
  

Time Frame

• Once year earlier, in January 2009, the world was nearing the end of a global bear market. The January 2010 global market capitalization of $46.6 trillion is 50 percent higher than it is was one year earlier. The world's stock owners gained $23 trillion in wealth over one year. During the year only two stock markets lost market cap in dollar terms: the Bermuda Stock Exchange and the Amman Stock Exchange.
  
  

The U.S. Market

• The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock exchange are, respectively, the first and third largest in the world by market capitalization. The two U.S. stock exchanges had a total market capitalization of $15.303 trillion. The U.S. stock markets comprise 32.8 percent of the total global stock market value.
  
  

Foreign Markets

• The Tokyo Stock Exchange has the second largest market capitalization. The eight largest stock exchanges that make up the balance of the top ten not in the U.S. are: Tokyo Stock Exchange (2), Euronext-Europe (4), London Stock Exchange (5), Hong Kong Exchanges (6), Canadian TSX Stock Exchange (7), BM&F Bovespa-Brazil (8), BME Spanish Exchanges (9) and Duetsche Borse-Germany (10).
  
  The total market capitalization of these eight exchanges was $14.98 trillion, giving the top ten stock exchanges a 65 percent share of the global stock capitalization.
  
  

Top-Perfoming Markets

• According to the WFE data, nine stock exchanges doubled their market capitalization in 2009. The best performing market in dollar terms was Indonesia, which gained 138 percent in 2009. The Brazilian Bovespa gained over 100 percent moving it from number 16 in market cap to the top ten in just one year.