After the share prices fell during the aftermath of the Russian crisis in 1998, the stock market has rebounded: in January 2000, the stock market index in Latvia exceeded the 100 mark for the first time since the Russian crisis. In the first three months of this year, the Dow Jones Riga Stock Exchange Index increased by 33%.
The effective definition of money as a means of payment changed over the centuries from objects of value (gold and silver), to fiduciary issues (bank notes and coin), and then to deposit-money created by banking institutions. To this will now be added e-money and payments made through electronically operated global systems (the Internet).