Bratislava Stock Exchange ( Slovak: Burza cenných papierov v Bratislave, abbr. BSSE, BCPB) is a

Stock Exchange A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for ...

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, that began its existence on 15 March 1991 according to adjudication of Ministry of Finance of Slovakia in 1990. BSSE is the only organizer of the market with the security papers in

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. It is in operation since 21 June 2001. The BSSE owns and operates CDCP SR (), a

central securities depository A central securities depository (CSD) is a specialized financial market infrastructure organization holding securities such as shares or bonds, either in certificated or uncertificated ( dematerialized) form, allowing ownership to be easily tra ...

established in 1992 and that has been connected with TARGET2-Securities since 2017. The trading started at BSSE on 6 April 1993. The seat of the stock exchange is Vysoká 17, Bratislava.

Index

The official

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for the Bratislava Stock Exchange is SAX (abbr. from ''Slovenský akciový index''; in Slovak: ''Slovak Share Index''). It is a capital-weighted index based on a comparison of market capitalization selected set of shares with a market capitalization of the same set of the reference date. It is an index that reflects the overall change of assets associated with investing in shares, which are included in the index. It includes changes in prices as well as dividend income and income related to changes in the size of the share capital. The initial value of the index is 100 points and binds to the date of the 14 September 1993.

Index composition

* Biotika, a.s. * OTP Banka Slovensko, a.s. * Slovenské energetické strojárne, a.s. * Slovnaft, a.s. * Všeobecná úverová banka, a.s.

External links

BSSE homepage

IndexSAX
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