WSE wants to make it possible to invest in foreign companies at low costs
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As the 300gospodarka website has learned unofficially, the Warsaw Stock Exchange would like to provide investors on the WSE with the opportunity to trade shares of the world's most important companies by creating a segment of global markets. If this idea works out, Polish investors – including individual ones – will gain the opportunity to invest in companies from the world's largest stock exchanges with commissions similar to those that they pay for trading Polish shares. Transactions would take place in PLN and during the working hours of the WSE. Unofficially, the WSE would like to start trading in shares of several hundred companies from the most liquid stock exchanges, including the US.
The WSE wants to follow the example of the Vienna Stock Exchange, which has already introduced a similar solution some time ago, and today the increase in turnover on the Viennese stock exchange is largely due to the world market segment. The global segment of the Vienna Stock Exchange offers trading in shares from Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Russia, and Spain), the USA, and Asia (including China and Japan) through brokers operating in Austria.
People associated with the capital market in Poland, who wish to remain anonymous, indicate that the introduction of the global market segment could be beneficial for many parties. The stock exchange itself could increase its turnover and attract new investors.
The proposed solution would also be positive for the small investors themselves, who today struggle with a small range of opportunities to invest their savings.
