Euronext Lisbon

Euronext Lisbon
Type	Stock Exchange
Location	Lisbon, Portugal
Founded	2002
Owner	NYSE Euronext
No. of listings	74
MarketCap	Euro 281 billion (2006)
Website	http://www.euronext.com
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Euronext Lisbon is a stock exchange in Lisbon, Portugal. It belongs to the NYSE Euronext group, the first global stock exchange.

Euronext Lisbon trades equities, public and private bonds, participation bonds, warrants, corporate warrants, investment trust units, and exchange traded funds. The BVL General index is the exchanges official index, and includes all listed shares on the official market. Settlement is T+3. Derivatives include long-term interest rate futures, three month Lisbor futures, stock index futures and options on the PSI-20 Stock index, and Portuguese stock futures. Trading hours are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (CET), Monday through Friday.

History

The predecessor of the Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa (Lisbon Stock Exchange) was created in 1769 as the Assembleia dos Homens de Negócio in the Praça do Comércio Square, Lisbon downtown. In 1891, the Bolsa de Valores do Porto (Porto Stock Exchange) in Porto was founded.

After the military coup on April 25, 1974, both the Lisbon and Porto stock exchanges were closed by the revolutionary National Salvation Junta (they would be reopened a couple of years later).^[2]

The Euronext Lisbon was formed in 2002 when the shares of Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa e Porto (BVLP) were acquired by Euronext N.V. and the exchange was merged into the pan-European exchange. BVLP, the Portuguese exchange, was formed in the 1990s restructuring of the Lisbon Stock Exchange association and the Porto Derivatives Exchange Association.

At the end of 2001, 65 companies were listed on BVLP-regulated markets, representing a market capitalization of Euro 96.1 billion. From January to December 2001, a total of 4.7 million futures and options contracts were traded on the BVLP market.

In 2007, after the merger of Euronext and NYSE, Euronext Lisbon joined the new NYSE Euronext group, the largest corporation operating multiple securities exchanges in the world.

See also

• List of European stock exchanges
• PSI-20
• Portuguese Securities Market Commission
• Euronext Amsterdam
• Euronext Brussels
• Euronext Paris

External links

• Euronext

References

1. ^ Euronext (2007-04-17). "Euronext Lisbon Fact book 2006". http://www.euronext.com/fic/000/020/200/202002.xls. 
2. ^ (Portuguese) História da Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa, Millennium bcp