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Euronext Lisbon is a stock exchange
Stock exchange

A stock exchange, securities exchange or bourse is a corporation or mutual organization which provides "trading" facilities for stock brokers and trader s, to trade stocks and other security ....
 in Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
. It belongs to the NYSE Euronext group, the first global stock exchange.

Euronext Lisbon trades equities, public and private bonds
Bond (finance)

In finance, a bond is a debt security , in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay interest and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed Maturity ....
, 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.






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Euronext Lisbon is a stock exchange
Stock exchange

A stock exchange, securities exchange or bourse is a corporation or mutual organization which provides "trading" facilities for stock brokers and trader s, to trade stocks and other security ....
 in Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
. It belongs to the NYSE Euronext group, the first global stock exchange.

Euronext Lisbon trades equities, public and private bonds
Bond (finance)

In finance, a bond is a debt security , in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay interest and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed Maturity ....
, 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
Derivative (finance)

Derivatives are financial contracts, or financial instruments, whose values are derived from the value of something else . The underlying on which a derivative is based can be an asset , an index , or other items ....
 include long-term interest rate futures, three month Lisbor futures, stock index futures and options on the PSI-20
PSI-20

The PSI-20 is a benchmark stock market index of companies that trade on Euronext Lisbon, the main stock exchange of Portugal. The index tracks the prices of the twenty listings with the largest market capitalization and share turnover in the PSI Geral, the general stock market of the Lisbon exchange....
 Stock index, and Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 stock futures. Trading hours are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (CET
Central European Time

Central European Time is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in most European and some North African countries....
), Monday through Friday.

History

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
Market capitalization

Market capitalization/capitalisation is a measurement of corporate or economic wealth equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company....
 of Euro
Euro

The euro is the official currency of 16 out of 27 European Union member state of the European Union . The states, known collectively as the Eurozone are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain....
 96.1 billion. From January to December 2001, a total of 4.7 million futures
Futures contract

In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a standardized quantity of a specified commodity of standardized quality at a certain date in the future, at a price determined by the instantaneous equilibrium between the forces of supply and demand among competing buy and sell orders...
 and options
Option (finance)

In finance, an option is a contract between a buyer and a seller that gives the buyer the right?but not the obligation?to buy or to sell a particular asset at a later time at an agreed price....
 contracts were traded on the BVLP market.

In 2007, after the merger of Euronext
Euronext

Euronext Naamloze Vennootschap is a pan-European stock exchange based in Paris and with subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal and the United Kingdom....
 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
    List of European stock exchanges

    This is a list of European stock exchanges.There are two major pan-European stock exchanges:*Euronext, which is headquartered in Paris and was formed from stock exchanges in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom and is currently the second-largest stock market in Europe ;...
  • PSI-20
    PSI-20

    The PSI-20 is a benchmark stock market index of companies that trade on Euronext Lisbon, the main stock exchange of Portugal. The index tracks the prices of the twenty listings with the largest market capitalization and share turnover in the PSI Geral, the general stock market of the Lisbon exchange....
  • Portuguese Securities Market Commission
    Portuguese Securities Market Commission

    The 'Portuguese Securities Market Commission' , also known by its initials 'CMVM', was established in April 1991 with the task of supervising and regulating securities and other financial instruments markets , as well as the activity of all those who operate within said markets....
  • Euronext Amsterdam
  • Euronext Brussels
  • Euronext Paris
    Euronext Paris

    Euronext Paris is France's securities market, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, which merged with the Amsterdam, Lisbon and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV, which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the UK London Stock Exchange....


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