In February 2018, stock markets across the globe experienced a significant correction after an upbeat start to the year in January, and market volatility surged, ending the relatively calm spell observed over 2017.

Stock markets got off to a strong start in 2018, maintaining the momentum observed in 2017 as valuations continued to soar and benchmark indices scaled new record highs in several markets across the globe.

In this article we present a snapshot of key in trends in 2017. The upcoming 2017 Market Highlights report in February 2018 will contain a more comprehensive analysis.

In this article we analyse listings, total number of trades and total trading value of investment funds based on data received from 37 exchanges.

In October 2017, over 50% of the exchanges that report data to the WFE saw their benchmark indices scale record high levels.

This article is a roundup of the developments in the equities, derivatives and bond markets in Q3 2017.

This article looks at the listings and value traded of ETFs in the first 8 months of 2017 when compared to the same period in 2016, based on data received from 45 exchanges.

This article is based on WFE’s recently published half year highlights and shows H1 2017 performance relative to H1 2016 for 68 exchanges across key metrics.

This article looks at the number of bonds listed in May 2017 and the capital raised by bond issuance (USD billions) over the January to May 2017 period.