The first stock exchange was established in antwerp, belgiumamsterdam, the netherlandslondon, england. brokers, merchants, and investors met at these stock exchanges. the stock exchange and companies raise money for their businesses.

The first stock exchange was established in Antwerp, Belgium. Brokers, merchants, and investors met at these stock exchanges. The stock exchange helped merchants and companies raise money for their businesses.

The first stock exchange was founded in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1460, when the city began to buy and sell goods from Venice and was becoming a leading commercial and financial center of Western Europe. The stock exchange helped companies and merchants of England, France, Portuguese, Italy, Spanish, Germany and Belgium itself, to raise money for their business, such as breweries, malt factories, bleaching works, sugar refineries, diamonds industry, etc.

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