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The Frankfurt Stock Exchange - Where Bull and Bear Say Goodnight

The Frankfurt Stock Exchange - Where Bull and Bear Say Goodnight

Category: Places of interest

The Stock Exchange's New Visitor Center

The historic stock exchange building in downtown Frankfurt, which houses the famous Börsensaal, is sporting a new look. The centerpiece of the expansion is the Visitor Center, which has made the stock exchange more lively, chic and tangible - an attractive contact point for the topics of the stock exchange and stock culture.

Since July 1, 2022, the new Visitor Center now offers an exhibition on all important aspects of the stock exchange.
You will be able to explore the stock market world on your own or be guided.

  • How trading works: sequence of a securities transaction
  • Just try it out: Simulate buying and selling shares.
  • Test your stock market knowledge with the quiz "Who will become a shareholder?"
  • Slip into the role of a trader of the 1980s - with historical brokerage barrier and trader office.
  • uvm.

Book free visit

HERE you can select a free date.

Because of its 43-meter-high dome, the domicile of the stock exchange, built in 1874-79 on Börsenplatz in downtown Frankfurt, is also called the "capitalist dome."

In front of the building stand the symbolic animals of the stock exchange: bull (for bull market) and bear (for bear market).

With its head pointing upwards, the bull is a symbol of rising prices on the stock exchange. If he is in charge, stock market traders can rejoice in a bull market.

Conversely, the bear stands for falling prices: a bear market rules.

Frankfurt is Germany's leading stock exchange today.

With a total turnover of around 5,200 billion euros (2000), Deutsche Börse AG consolidated its position as the world's third-largest - behind the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq - exchange for securities.

As the first major international marketplace operator, Deutsche Börse AG itself went public at the beginning of 2001.

In the wake of worldwide globalization and, increasingly important, trading on the Internet (retail investors), stock trading will increasingly be handled via the Xetra computer system.

The main advantages of computer trading are considered to be perfect processing, short response times, flexible markets and the internationalization of trading.

After 426 years, the classic floor trading ended in the "Alte Börse". Since May 23, 2011, all trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange has been controlled by the electronic system Xetra.

The headquarters with administration and the computer trading Xetra moved to Frankfurt-Hausen in mid-2000.

To save on trade tax, Deutsche Börse moved in November 2010 with around 1,600 employees to the neighboring "tax paradise" Eschborn.

Only the computer center and the securities depository remained in Frankfurt-Hausen.

Although the stock exchange thus hardly employs any staff in Frankfurt anymore, the Main metropolis remains Deutsche Börse's official headquarters.

Contact:
Phone: +49-(0) 69-211-11515
E-mail:
visitors.center@deutsche-boerse.com

Further info at: www.deutsche-boerse.com

Address:
Deutsche Börse AG, Neue Börsenstraße 1, 60487 Frankfurt am Main

Text from: Frankfurt-Tipp.de

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