50 years since the establishment of Nasdaq in the US Listed on many IT-related companies such as Apple Amazon

The US Nasdaq market, which is listed on many IT-related stocks, celebrated its 50th anniversary on the 8th.

The Nasdaq Market is a stock trading market opened by the National Securities Industry Association on February 8, 1971, and all transactions were digitized in 1996.

Since it is easier to list than the New York Stock Exchange, which is said to be the most rigorous in the world, listings were made one after another, mainly by emerging companies.

As a result, IT-related companies have gathered, and Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Tesla, which are the top American companies by market capitalization, are all listed on the Nasdaq.

Currently, the number of listed companies is about 3,300 including foreign companies, and the total market capitalization of listed companies is 1,300 trillion yen, which is almost twice the total of the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

In addition, the stock price recovered sharply because IT-related companies were considered to be less affected by the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and the growth rate of the stock index for the last year was 43.6%, which was 7.2% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is much higher.