🇨🇱 Stock Markets

Assessing the public markets' importance.

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February 06, 2025 • Reading Time: 2 minutes

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A wise man once said “Work brings you to the middle class, but investments let you leave it for the upper class.”

With this in mind, today let’s look at the most traditional way people invest today: the stock market.

Now, while the two most famous market exchanges worldwide – NYSE and NASDAQ – are obviously based in New York, don’t think for a second that Latin America’s stock markets aren’t also worth observing.

Ever since the Salvador stock exchange opened up in northeastern Brazil in 1817, the region has had a number of key hubs where investors could trade shares of publicly-held companies.

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