BSE debuts on NSE: 6 little-known facts about the bourse

Asia's oldest stock exchange has finally listed on NSE, its much younger rival

After a long and wobbly road so far, Asia’s oldest stock exchange BSE finally listed on rival National Stock Exchange on Friday. As it adds another chapter in its 142-year-long history, Business Standard lists six little-known facts about BSE that will surprise you:
 

1) The origin: Under a banyan tree
 

The stock exchange’s origin can be traced back to 1855, when five brokers sat under a banyan tree to ‘play’ stocks in front of Bombay’s Town Hall. As more people got hooked to their game and joined in, the traffic movement on the road became difficult to manage and the brokers