Chapter II evolution of stock exchanges
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xii) Algeria
In late 1998 it was decided that it was time for Algeria to enjoy the services of a local stock market. This was not easy since there were not that many companies worth listing on the stock exchange at the time. In fact, there were only three different companies which were listed – a pharmaceutical company, a hotel and a food processing company. However, this was all that was needed to help get the Algerian Stock Exchange off the ground. The Algerian Stock Exchange was opened in July 1999 and is located in Algiers. In October of the same year a fourth company – a national oil company – joined the ranks of those already registered on the stock exchange. The Algerian Stock Exchange has certainly proved to be a worthwhile venture. The exchange is ran by the Societe de Gestion de la Bourse des Valeurs (SGBV) and supervised by the Stock Exchange and Surveillance Commission. The exchange currently only has three list stocks on the exchange; The Saidal Group, Hotel Aurassi, and Eriad Setif, a food processing company.
The Algerian stock market is still in its infancy stage. The problem with Algerian stock market is that they have the ―chicken and the egg problem.‖ No
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company wants to issue stock in a market that is basically nonexistent and no investor wants to invest in one. To compliment the desolate market issue Algeria‘s government has not taken the necessary steps to create the regulator institutions that are needed to provide investor confidence in the market. Accounting standards also become an issue because most companies in Algeria can not meet the accounting standard to even be listed on the stock exchange. Further problems also arise because most companies in Algeria are not transparent enough to warrant investor confidence in them. Although capital gains as interest and dividend income are tax-exempt, investors still show scant interest in the stock market, furthermore reflecting their lack of confidence in the market. Which leads to most public enterprises have no desire to issue stock for fear of seeing the stock prices fall, whereas private firms refrain from issuing stock in order to avoid diluting their share capital. The dearth of stock all of these issues hinders the emergence of financial analysis services and hampers efforts to instill a sense of the importance of finance, which in turn exacerbates investor mistrust. (World Bank, 2004). Download 1.12 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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