India

2009 growth: 48.25%
Decline from 52-week high: -18.26%

Bombay Stock Exchange, Asia's oldest bourse, is 133 years old and had a market capitalisation of $1.79 trillion (December 31, 2007).

BSE is the world's number 1 exchange in terms of the number of listed companies and the world's 5th in transaction numbers.

Braving the global recessionary trends, India managed 6.7 per cent economic growth in 2008-09 despite the manufacturing sector recording a dismal performance.

A 5.8 per cent growth rate during the last quarter of the fiscal, at a time when most developed economies have shrunk, puts India among the top-most growing nations.

Inflation slipped to 0.13 per cent, the lowest ever in over three decades even as prices of essential food items turned dearer.