Asia Pacific Markets Guide 2008
Asia Pacific Markets Guide 2008
China and India will fuel world growth in the coming century. These two economic superpowers, emerging from the Asia Pacific region, will shift the balance of world capital flows, both creating demand for capital and, increasingly, providing investment funds to satisfy it. As the economies and markets in the region have deregulated, the opportunities for entrepreneurs and established businesses have grown exponentially.
Outside China and India, other stock markets in the region have seen increasing investment activity, aided by the success of some specialist growth markets such as KOSDAQ and by the consolidation of some stock exchanges. For example, the Jakarta Stock Exchange and the Surabaya Stock Exchange merged to create the Indonesia Stock Exchange in September 2007.
World capital markets operate in various logical and overlapping groups, such as by size of stock market, type of company, sector concentration or geographic proximity. The 2008 Grant Thornton capital markets guide for Asia Pacific is part of a series of capital markets guides that Grant Thornton International has compiled over 7 years. These guides track the emergence and development of some of these alignments.
This Asia Pacific guide compares the performance of the 21 largest stock exchanges in the region, from India and Pakistan in the west, to Japan and China in the east, to Australia and New Zealand in the south.
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