Brief History Of Stock Exchange.

About the history of Stock Exchange , it is commonly thought that the idea of the stock exchange began in the middle of the 13th century. Venetian bankers had begun to trade government securities. In the late 13th century commodity traders began to gather at a house in Bruges. This meeting became known as the "Bruges Bourse" or Bruges Purse. Commodities trading soon spread to Flanders, Ghent and Amsterdam; while government securities trading spread from Venice to Verona, Genoa, and Flanders in modern day Italy by the 14th century. The Dutch would later join the trend and start companies which allowed shareholders to invest in business ventures and share in the profits and losses. In 1602, at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the first shares of the Dutch East India Company were traded. This would be followed by the opening of the London Stock Exchange in 1688.