The dizzying enhance in market capitalization in Asia | EUROtoday
SElon an OECD examine dedicated to capital markets in Asia, the variety of listed firms elevated by 14,303 between 2000 and 2024 when, on the similar time, it fell 2,243 within the United States and 1,055 in Europe. It now quantities to 29,000, greater than half (55 %) of the whole variety of firms listed on the world, in opposition to a share of 36 % in 2000.
“Following the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, many countries in the region took measures to strengthen their financial systems and promote market funding,” notes the OECD report. This is how the inventory of bonds issued by Asian firms has elevated $ 9,000 billion since 2000 in opposition to $ 5,100 billion within the United States and 4,500 billion in Europe.
China simply behind the United States
The capitalization of Asian scholarships, for its half, has quadrupled for the reason that starting of the century, displaying a rise of $ 25,000 billion between 2000 and 2024 then, compared, it elevated by $ 35,000 billion within the United States and remained unchanged in Europe. At the tip of final yr, it was 34,400 billion {dollars}, or 27 % of world market capitalization (in comparison with 15 % in 2000) and a degree near Asia in world GDP (31 %).
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The China’s market capitalization alone elevated, in twenty years, from 513 billion to 13,000 billion {dollars}. It is now on the earth behind the United States and twice represents the dimensions of the Japanese market, the second within the area.
Reduced to GDP, the capitalization of Chinese scholarships has elevated by 51 proportion factors since 2000 to 63.4 % of GDP on the finish of 2024 whereas, on the similar time, market capitalization elevated by 69 proportion factors within the United States and decreased by 17 factors in Europe.
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