Euronext Lisbon is a

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. It is part of

Euronext Euronext N.V. (short for European New Exchange Technology) is a European bourse that provides trading and post-trade services for a range of financial instruments. Traded assets include regulated equities, exchange-traded funds (ETF), warrant ...

pan-European exchange. The most famous index is PSI-20. 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 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 Commerce Square, Lisbon downtown. In 1891, the ''Bolsa de Valores do Porto'' (Porto Stock Exchange) in

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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). The Euronext Lisbon was formed in 2002 when the shares of Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa e Porto (BVLP) were acquired by

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 futures and options contracts were traded on the BVLP market. The merger of Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa e Porto (Portuguese Stock Exchange) with

in 2002 that created the Euronext Lisbon, part of the pan-European Euronext system of

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, improved market efficiency during the post-merger period and marked a new milestone in the financial development of Portugal. In 2007, after the merger of

and the

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, Euronext Lisbon joined the new

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group, the largest corporation operating multiple securities exchanges in the world. A few years later, part of a

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's deal to acquire NYSE Euronext was a spin-off for Euronext. In June 2014 Euronext completed an

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making it again a standalone company. After this operation, the Euronext Lisbon remained a fully-owned subsidiary of Euronext N.V. headquartered in Paris and registered in Amsterdam.

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