Israel

2009 growth: 39.04%
Decline from 52-week high: -24.96

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, colloquially known as the Boursa is Israel's only stock exchange.

The TASE is the only public market for trading securities in Israel. The precursor to the TASE was the Exchange Bureau for Securities, founded by the Anglo-Palestine Bank (which became Bank Leumi) in 1935.

The economy of Israel is a diversified market economy with substantial state ownership and a rapidly developing high-tech sector.

The country's GDP (p) in 2006 reached $195 billion according to the International Monetary Fund.