LuxX Index

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The LuxX Index 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 eleven most valuable listed stocks by free floated market capitalisation (ten until the collapse of Fortis in 2008 and the addition of two new listings).[1] The index was fixed at 1,000 on 4 January 1999: the first day of trading after Luxembourg adopted the euro.[1] The eleven companies currently included in the listing are:

Company Industry Country Weighting
Aperam ne Metals  LUX 7.40%
Arcelor Mittal Steel  LUX 20.61%
BIP Investment Partners Investment  LUX 2.21%
Foyer Insurance  LUX 0.87%
KBC Group Banking  BEL 9.63%
Luxempart Investment  LUX 3.05%
Reinet Investments Investment  LUX 19.95%
RTL Group Media  LUX 12.10%
SES Telecommunications  LUX 19.91%
Socfinaf Resource extraction  LUX 2.06%
Socfinasia Resource extraction  LUX 2.20%
Source: Luxembourg Stock Exchange, as of January 5, 2013

Historical quotes

Year end Close Annual change (%)
Start 1,000 -
1999 1,397 Increase +39.7%
2000 1,388 Decrease –0.7%
2001 1,116 Decrease –19.6%
2002 790 Decrease –29.2%
2003 1,019 Increase +29.0%
2004 1,292 Increase +26.8%
2005 1,637 Increase +26.7%
2006 2,177 Increase +33.0%
2007 2,419 Increase +11.1%
2008 981 Decrease –59.4%
2009 1,371 Increase +40.0%
2010 1,542 Increase +12.4%
2011 1,135 Decrease -26.4%
2012 1,248 Increase +10.0%
Source: Luxembourg Stock Exchange

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Luxembourg LuxX Index". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2007-08-24. 

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