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             NUMBERS                     demonstrative effect. On the con-
                                         trary. The concentration of the stock
     32                                  exchange trade in several main secu-
                                         rities continues to be very low. For
     million Euros is the total          example, the scope of trading with
 annual turnover on all bases            shares from the MBI10 in the trading
                                         in the BEST system, and in the total
    for less than nine months            stock exchange turnover this year is
     on the MACEDONIAN STOCK             approximately 53 and 48% respec-
                                         tively, while the turnover of the ten
                    EXCHANGE             top traded shares this year (8 of them
                                         are components of the MBI 10) is ap-
 150.000                                 proximately 50% of the total turnover
                                         of 55% of the turnover in BEST. Why
    EUROS is the Average daily           is the situation as it is? In these 20
        turnover in classical            years, numerous attempts and activi-
                     trading             ties have been performed in order to
                                         change things. Maybe there was a se-
    11%                                  quence of internal and external cir-
                                         cumstances which contributed that
        is the participation of          not even once until now a situation is
      foreign investors in the           created of ideal timing and excellent
    purchase side of turnover            decision makers in the business com-
                                         munity in this direction. On the other
     1,8                                 hand, the “perfect storm” in the peri-
                                         od from 2008 to 2009 “swell” all pre-
   billion euros is the market           viously acquired benefits in the mar-
    capitalization, that is, the         ket functioning. Hence, the natural
 market value of the current             genesis of the securities market in a
   one hundred and ten listed            post-communist country was violent-
                                         ly interrupted by the strength of the
                   companies             financial crisis we imported. When
                                         privatizations were more or less over,
institutions, and the country caught     when the ownership in companies
in the broadest sense, as an issuer,     was more or less consolidated, when
regulator and stimulator.                the level of education increased more
                                         or less, when foreigners appeared on
   The offer of equity in the stock ex-  the market and private pension and
change, that is, the available shares    investment funds were established,
issued by the one hundred and ten        when the domestic investors were fi-
listed joint stock companies is pri-     nally encouraged and when at least
marily due to the two legal compul-      some entrepreneurs started to think
sory listings in 2002 and 20043. Al-     that there is capital on the capital
most all listed joint stock companies    market – the things went back to the
were created in the period of privati-   way they were before. So far this is
zation. There are no anonymous and       the story of the Macedonian stock
spontaneous listings, there are no       market. On the other hand, the per-
initial public offers. Some attempts     formances of the listed companies
of several smaller “new” companies       are quite correct. For example, of 110
were not performed in a manner or        companies in total, 78 were working
in a time which was adequate, and        profitably in the first semester of 2016
they didn’t give the desired positive    (whereby their aggregate profit is ap-
                                         proximately 5 billion denars against

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