According to the statistics in Warsaw Stock Exchange takes one of the top places in Central and Eastern Europe due to its significant value of trading, futures market, IPO number and capitalisation of domestic companies.
The WSE’s value of trading has been growing steadily as compared to the Wiener Boerse. The value of trading of the Wiener Boerse was €2 billion higher than on the WSE in January 2007. The gap shrank to only €250 million in December 2007. The WSE’s value of trading was greater than that of Wiener Boerse in November 2008.
The capitalisation of the WSE is bigger than that of Wiener Boerse or Athens Exchange. The capitalisation of the WSE is €15 billion bigger than that of Wiener Boerse. The capitalisation of the WSE was almost €2 billion greater than the capitalisation of Athens Exchange at the end of November 2008.
According to the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), the WSE ranked first in Europe regarding the number of IPOs in 2008 (as of end of November 2008).
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