Here are the 10 biggest stock exchanges in the world, ranked by market cap

Traders working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange are blur in this time exposure, just before the opening bell, 11 May, 2004.Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images

• Traders increasingly turn to exchanges worldwide for round-the-clock price action.
• While the London and New York stock exchanges are the world's oldest, new firms sprang up throughout Asia and Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s.
• Here are the world's biggest stock exchanges in ascending order of market cap.
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With market volatility stabilizing at heightened levels and investors monitoring price action throughout the day, stock exchanges around the world are more relevant than ever.

Traders are increasingly looking to Asian markets late Sunday afternoon to gauge whether the larger US counterparts will swing higher or decline through the week's first session. The London and New York stock exchanges are the world's oldest and among the most popular, but major exchanges in Asia and Europe cropped up throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

Here are the 10 biggest stock exchanges in the world ranked in ascending order of market cap. Data sourced from the World Federation of Exchanges' March report.

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