EuronextEuronext N.V. is the first multinational exchange organization in Europe. It's services range from public offerings to trading facilities for cash instruments and derivatives. This also includes clearing and netting, settlement through its partnership with Euroclear, IT solutions, and market data. It provides services for cash markets in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal, and for derivatives in the UK. This also includes clearing and netting, settlement through its partnership with Euroclear, IT solutions, and market data.Euronext is integrating its markets across Europe to provide market users with the benefits of wider and cost efficient transactions. The development and integration model of Euronext is generating synergies as it benefits from the particular strengths and assets of each local market. The organization was the European leader in equity trading volumes executed through the central order book in 2002. Euronext.life, the derivatives arm of Euronext manages its derivatives markets in five countries. For operational and regulatory purposes, the Euronext group is organized in a way that is independent of the geographic locations of its subsidiaries in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. At an operational level, it is organized as a single entity divided into four Strategic Business Units (SBUs). The four SBUs, each of which has responsibility for achieving results are: · Cash Markets and Listing · Derivatives Markets · Clearing · Information Services The group unity and cohesion that could be witnessed at Euronext are ensured by the use of group support departments (covering finance, human resources, legal aspects, information systems and business strategy) that are responsible for co-ordination and consistency in its operations. Facts And FiguresNumber of listed companies 1,484Market capitalization (in billions of euros, as of 31 December) 1,477 TurnoverOn shares - electronic order book (in billions of euros - single counted) 1,570 Number of tradesCash market - electronic order book (millions of trades) 137.9 Derivatives markets - contracts traded (millions) 697 Indices (at year end) Euronext 100® 540.27 Next 150® 647.45 AEX® (Amsterdam) 322.73 BEL 20® (Brussels) 2,025.04 CAC 40® (Paris) 3,063.91 PSI 20® (Lisbon) 5,826.70 Day-Trading-Strategy .com, P.O. Box 89029, Houston Texas, 77289 info@Day-Trading-Strategy.com |