Why choose for the AEX?

As i told you before, The Netherlands has two stock exchanges, the AEX and the AMX. So if you want to take part of a stock exchange, you have two choices. But you can also take part of an another stock exchange in a foreign country.

The United States of America also has some stock exchanges. The two best known are the Nasdaq Stock Market and Dow Jones. Most of the companies who are active on the Nasdaq, are technology related business. The Dow Jones is the oldest stock exchange of the United States of America.

There also is an 'European version' of the Dow Jones, the Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50. It's a joint venture of Deutsche Beurse AG, Dow Jones and SIX Swiss Exchange. The Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 is the most populair stock exchange of Europe. There are three Dutch companies on this exchange, Philips, Aegon and Unilever.

Almost every country in Europe has their own stock exchange.

The Netherlands ; AEX, AMX.

Austria ; ATX.

Belgium ; BEL20.

Romania ; BET 10.

Germany ; DAX.

United Kingdom ; FTSE 100.

Spain ; IBEX-35.

Finland ; OMX Helsinki 25.

These are just some that are populair in The Netherlands.

Asia also has some stock exchanges. India has BSE sensex, Honk Kong has the Hang Seng, Indonesia has LQ-45, South Korea has Kospi Index but the best known is the Nikkei 225 from Japan.

So you have a lot of choices. To help you a bit further I will provide you with some information of some of the mentioned stock exchanges in my next couple of blogs.