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The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (French: Bourse de Luxembourg) is a stock exchange based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The Exchange is located on avenue de la Porte-Neuve, . The Chairman of the Board is Raymond Kirsch and the President of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer is Michel Maquil. The exchange has pre-opening sessions from 07:15am to 09:00am and normal trading sessions from 09:00am to 05:40pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.[2]
[edit] BondsIt specialises primarily in the issue of international bonds, in which it is ranked first in Europe, with 32,933 debt securities listed on the Exchange as of 2008[update].[1] The Luxembourg Stock Exchange was the first exchange to list a Eurobond, with the issue of Italian Autostrade bonds in 1963,[3] and, to this day, Luxembourg has maintained a dominant position in European bond issues, with approximately 60% of all cross-border securities in Europe being listed in Luxembourg.[3] Fifty countries list at least some of their sovereign debt in Luxembourg, whilst Luxembourg is also a market for debt from the EBRD, European Commission, European Investment Bank, and World Bank.[3] [edit] EquitiesLuxembourg Stock Exchange's main equity index is called the LuxX Index, which is a weighted index of the ten most valuable listed stocks by free floated market capitalisation.[4] The index was fixed at 1,000 on 4 January 1999: the first day of trading after Luxembourg adopted the euro.[4] The ten companies currently included in the listing are:
[edit] HistoryA law establishing a stock exchange in Luxembourg was passed on 30 January 1927.[6] The company was incorporated as the Société Anonyme de la Bourse de Luxembourg on 5 April 1928,[7] with an initial issue of 7,000 shares, each valued at 1000 francs.[8] In November 2000, it entered into an agreement with Euronext. [edit] Footnotes
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