A clearing house is an intermediary between buyers and sellers of financial instruments. Further, it is an agency or separate corporation of a futures exchange responsible for settling trading accounts, clearing trades, collecting and maintaining margin monies, regulating delivery, and reporting trading data.
All the world's 10 most valuable companies, including Alphabet, Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT), are based in the U.S., according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from S&P Capital IQ based on the S&P Global 1200 index. Alphabet's rise to No. 1 with a market value Tuesday of $554.8 billion is a historic moment.
About This Statistic. The statistic depicts the market value of the top internet companies worldwide as of May 2016. That year, e-commerce company Amazon's market value was 341 billion U.S. dollars. Search market leader Google had a market value of 510 billion U.S. dollars. Special Functions.