The Netherlands Equities

The most important financial center available in the Netherlands is the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. It is the former name for the Stock Exchange based in Amsterdam.

It merged on September 22, 2000 with the Brussels Stock Exchange and the Paris Stock Exchange to form Euronext N.V., and is now known as Euronext Amsterdam.

Nowadays Euronext is the first genuinely cross-border exchange which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange.

It provides international services for regulated Cash Markets and Derivative Markets in Belgium, France, the Uk (derivatives), the Netherlands and Portugal.

The main index is the AEX General (the Amsterdam Exchange).

The AEX is a stock market index composed of 25 largest Dutch companies that trade on Euronext Amsterdam, formerly known as the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

It is now managed by Euronext Amsterdam.

Euronext manages a variety of indexes. The most popular index is the Euronext 100, which consists of the 100 largest stocks on Euronext. This index is essentially Euronext's blue chip index.