LuxX Index

The LuxX Index, abbreviated to LuxSE, is the main stock market index of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, the stock exchange based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The LuxX is a weighted index of the ten most valuable listed stocks by free floated market capitalisation.[1] The index was fixed at 1,000 on 4 January 1999: the first day of trading after Luxembourg adopted the euro.[1] The ten companies currently included in the listing are:

Company Industry Country Weighting[2]
Arcelor Mittal Steel  LUX 19.31%
BIP Investment Partners Investment  LUX 1.75%
Cegedel Electricity  LUX 1.06%
Dexia Banking  BEL 13.01%
Fortis Banking  BEL 19.10%
Foyer Insurance  LUX 0.59%
KBC Group Banking  BEL 14.86%
Luxempart Investment  LUX 2.10%
RTL Group Media  LUX 7.00%
SES Telecommunications  LUX 21.22%
Source: Luxembourg Stock Exchange

Historical quotes

Year end Close Annual change (%)
Start 1,000 -
1999 1,397 +39.7%
2000 1,388 –0.7%
2001 1,116 –19.6%
2002 790 –29.2%
2003 1,019 +29.0%
2004 1,292 +26.8%
2005 1,637 +26.7%
2006 2,177 +33.0%
2007 2,419 +11.1%
Source: Luxembourg Stock Exchange

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Luxembourg LuxX Index. Bloomberg. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
  2. ^ As of 24 August 2007

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