Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Amsterdam Stock Exchange
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is
considered the oldest in the world. It was established in 1602 by the Dutch East
India Company for dealings in its
printed stocks and bonds. It was subsequently renamed the Amsterdam Bourse and
was the first to formally begin trading in securities.
The European Option Exchange (EOE) was
founded in 1978 in Amsterdam as a futures and options exchange. In 1983 it
started a stock market index, called the EOE index, consisting of the 25
largest companies that trade on the stock exchange.
In 1997 the Amsterdam Stock Exchange
and the EOE merged, and its blue chip index was renamed AEX, for
"Amsterdam Exchange". It is now managed by Euronext Amsterdam.
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