Euronext Lisbon is a

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Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits w ...

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. It is part of

Euronext Euronext N.V. (short for European New Exchange Technology) is a pan-European bourse that offers various trading and post-trade services. Traded assets include regulated equities, exchange-traded funds (ETF), warrants and certificates, bonds, ...

pan-European exchange. Euronext Lisbon trades

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, 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+2. Derivatives include long-term interest rate futures, three-month Lisbor futures, stock index futures and options on the

PSI-20 The PSI-20 (an acronym of Portuguese Stock Index) 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 cap ...

Stock index, and Portuguese stock futures. Trading hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 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'' (Assembly of Businessmen) in the

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, Lisbon downtown. In 1891, the ''Bolsa de Valores do Porto'' (Oporto Stock Exchange) in

Oporto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropo ...

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).História da Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa
, Millennium bcp 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. Euronext N.V. (short for European New Exchange Technology) is a pan-European bourse that offers various trading and post-trade services. Traded assets include regulated equities, exchange-traded funds (ETF), warrants and certificates, bonds, ...

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

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96.1 billion. From January to December 2001, a total of 4.7 million

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and

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contracts were traded on the BVLP market. In 2007, after the merger of

and

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, Euronext Lisbon joined the new NYSE Euronext group, the largest corporation operating multiple securities exchanges in the world. In June 2014 Euronext completed an

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making it again a standalone company.

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