On global stock exchanges.

• Author: Rees, Matthew
• Position: Global market/economic trends - Brief article

"Since their peak in 2002, foreign listings on the NYSE have fallen 4 percent to 451 by the end of 2006, although that's up slightly from 2000. Since 2000, foreign listings have fallen 34 percent to 321 on Nasdaq."

"It's hardly an American disease. Excluding AIM, the London Stock Exchange's blue-chip Main Market has seen foreign listings decline 23 percent since 2000. The Deutsche Borse is down 58 percent; Tokyo down 39 percent."

"Between 1996 and 2002, private-equity buyouts represented 2 percent of all mergers and acquisitions in the United...