Indices and markets

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Alternative Investment Market (AIM)
The formally organised equity market for small, emerging companies in the UK for whom a full listing is unnecessary.

American Stock Exchange (AMEX)
The USA's second biggest stock exchange and options exchange after the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Borsa Italiana
The entity in charge of the Italian stock exchange.

CAC 40
The main benchmark for Euronext Paris. It contains 40 stocks selected among the top 100 market capitalisation and the most active stocks listed on Euronext Paris, and is the underlying asset for options and futures contracts. The base value is 1 000 at December 31, 1987.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
The largest futures exchange in the United States and one of the largest exchanges in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures.|

Dax
The leading index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange it measures the performance of the 30 largest German companies in terms of order book volume and market capitalisation.

Dow Jones (DJ) EURO STOXX 50
A European blue-chip index that includes the 50 leading shares within the euro-zone.

Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
Consisting of the unweighted average of the stock prices of the 30 leading blue chips on the NSYE , it acts as a performance indicator for the whole market.

Eurex
Based in Frankfurt, Eurex is the world's leading futures and options market for euro denominated derivative instruments.

Euronext
The first cross-border and second largest bourse in the euro-zone which currently operates as a merged Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris stock exchange.

Euronext 100
The leading index of the Euronext stock exchange. It represents a weighted average of the 100 largest and most liquid shares traded on Euronext.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange
See Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (FWB).

Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (FWB)
The Frankfurt stock exchange, one of the leading stock exchanges in Europe.

FTSE Eurofirst 80 Index
Index of the 60 largest capitalisations in the euro-zone to which are added another 40 stocks to achieve a fairer sector representation.

FTSE Eurotop 100 Index
An index including Europe's 60 largest companies weighted in accordance with market capitalisation to which are added another 40 stocks to achieve a fairer sector representation.

FTSE 100 Index (Footsie)
The index of the 100 largest companies by market capitalisation listed on the London Stock Exchange. It is free float weighed.

FTSE All-Share Index
A weighted average of all shares traded on the London Stock Exchange.

LIFFE (London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange)
An electronic derivatives exchange purchased by Euronext in 2001.

London Stock Exchange
One of the world's leading stock exchanges.

NASDAQ (the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations)
An international electronic stock exchange created in the USA. Nasdaq can be considered as a hybrid market as it is both quotation and order driven.

New York Stock Exchange (NSYE)
The USA's and the world's largest stock exchange. Often referred to as 'Wall Street', the street in New York where it is based.

NIKKEI 225
An unweighted index of the largest 225 shares traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

NIKKEI 500
An unweighted index of the largest 500 shares traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Nouveau Marché
The regulated stock market segment of Euronext Paris for high-growth and emerging companies seeking to raise capital in order to finance their business activities and development.

Nuovo Mercato
The regulated stock market segment of the Italian Stock Exchange largely used by high-growth and emerging companies seeking to raise capital in order to finance their business activities and development.

Russell 3000
A market capitalisation-weighted index containing approximately 98% of all investable equities traded in the USA.

Standard & Poor's 500 Composite (S&P 500) Index
A capitalisation weighted index of 500 shares, the Standard and Poor's 500 index represents the price trend movements of the major ordinary shares of U.S. public companies. It is used to measure the performance of the entire U.S. domestic stock market.

S&P/MIB Index
The leading index of the Italian Stock Exchange. Based on free float methodology it covers approximately 80% of the Italian equity universe.

S&P Topix 150 Index
The Tokyo Stock Price Index covers the 150 most active shares of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

S&P TSX Composite
The leading index of the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Toronto Stock Exchange
The leading stock exchange in Canada

Tokyo Stock Exchange
The leading stock exchange in Japan and one of the world's largest markets.

TSX Venture Exchange
The Toronto-based exchange for emerging companies.

Wall Street
See New York Stock Exchange (NSYE).

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