BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Bourse

  • a European stock exchange, especially the one in Paris

Wiktionary Definition for: Bourse

  • stock exchange
  • A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged. A bourse usually has no competitive exhibits of stamps or covers. Almost all public stamp exhibitions include a dealer bourse, though many bourses are held without a corresponding exhibition.

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EGYPT: BEGINNING OF USE OF DOW JONES PRICE INDEX ON BOURSE.
A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on the beginning of use of the Dow Jones World Share Index on the local Securities Bourse. The paper quoted Bourse President Majid Shawqi who said in early April 2006 that the date for beginning to use this index w A-Sharq Al-Awsat...
Tags: Bourse, Dow Jones & Company Inc.
Research articles 2006-05-02
UAE: DUBAI GOLD BOURSE PLAN TO ADVERTISE TENDER FOR MARINE TRANSPORT.
A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted Business Manager of the Dubai Gold Bourse, Ahmad bin Salim, who said in late March 2006 that the Bourse management will advertise during the summer of 2006 a tender for marine transport. He estimated that the marine transport contracts will be signed...
Tags: Marine Transport Inc.
Research articles 2006-04-12
YEMEN: YEMEN IS NOT YET READY FOR A SECURITIES BOURSE.
Al-Khaleej newspaper quoted authorized sources who said in late May 2005 that Yemen is not yet ready to open a Securities Bourse. The paper quoted Chairman of the Committee which prepared the plan to create a securities bourse, Ahmad Ghalib, who said that the plan to create...
Tags: bourse, FINANCE, security, World Bank
Research articles 2005-10-09
Bourse halts LVMH trading as price soars 20 percent. (Moet Hennesset Louis Vuiton, Paris Bourse)
Bourse Halts LVMH Trading As Price Soars 20 Percent PARIS FNS -- Trading in LVMH Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton stock was suspended half an hour before the close of the Paris Bourse Thursday as massive share-buying pushed the price of LVMH's shares up 20 percent, the...
Tags: LVMH Inc.
Research articles 1989-01-06
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY: PRICE INDEX FALLS ON SECURITIES BOURSE.(Brief Article)
Al-Watan newspaper provided data from the PA Securities Bourse Report published in October 2002 which maintained that the Israeli military operations in the West Bank and Gaza caused the 49% drop in the PA securities price index in comparison to the index for April 2000. The ...
Tags: West Bank
Research articles 2002-10-30
JOINT DOW JONES-BAHRAIN SECURITIES BOURSE SHARE PRICE INDEX
Al-Anwar newspaper quoted a notice published in late April 2005 by the management of the Bahrain Securities Bourse and the management of the Dow Jones Price Index announcing the early June 2005 beginning of a joint share price index. The paper quoted a noAl-Anwar newspaper quoted a notice published in...
Tags: The Dow Chemical Co.
Research articles 2005-06-19
BAHRAIN: JOINT DOW JONES-BAHRAIN SECURITIES BOURSE SHARE PRICE INDEX.
Al-Anwar newspaper quoted a notice published in late April 2005 by the management of the Bahrain Securities Bourse and the management of the Dow Jones Price Index announcing the early June 2005 beginning of a joint share price index. The paper quoted Al-Anwar newspaper quoted a...
Tags: The Dow Chemical Co.
Research articles 2005-06-19
UAE: DUBAI INTERNATIONAL BOURSE USES FOUR ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INDEXES OF DEUTSCHE BANK.
A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted a notice published in late December 2005 by the Dubai International Securities Bourse announcing the initiation of use of four new financial indexes from ... A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted a notice published in late December 2005 by the Dubai International Securities Bourse...
Tags: Deutsche Bank AG
Research articles 2006-02-20
Sinar Mas denies short selling in Singapore Bourse.
An investment holding company, a subsidiary of the Sinar Mas group denined being vinvolved in short selling the shares of Golden Agri-Resources GAR in the Singapore bourse. The denial came following an announcement by Asia Food & Properties (AF An investment holding company, a subsidiary of...
Tags: bourse
Research articles 2000-10-01
Nasdaq Japan wooed Nagoya bourse as new ally in May.
NAGOYA, Sept. 6 Kyodo Nasdaq Japan Inc., the co-operator of the Nasdaq Japan market with the Osaka Securities Exchange OSE, proposed to the Nagoya Stock Exchange in early May that it and the exchange tie up to set up a new market, a senior official...
Tags: bourse, Branding, INTERNET, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Research articles 2002-09-09
Measures fail to jolt bourse into life. (Stock Market Watch).
THE bourse has yet to show signs of recovery nearly one month after a raft of new measures were launched to round up new trade. Recent efforts by authorities through seminars and technical changes still have yet to bring the bourse out of its sluggish mood. ...
Tags: bourse, British Broadcasting Corp., FINANCE, Investment, performance, stock
Research articles 2003-06-16
Kuwaiti firms say bourse decisions endanger economy
KUWAIT CITY AFP — Forty-three of the 190 firms listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange made an unprecedented protest on Wednesday about decisions by the bourse's management they said was detrimental to the economy. The companies, which include firms owned by major merchant families, published a joint advertisement in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bourse, FINANCE, Investment, Kuwait, stock
Research articles 2007-10-03
Scandale a la bourse. (Paris stock market scandal)
PARIS DURING the past six months Paris has had enough financial scandals to scar its chosen image as the coming financial centre in continental Europe. The last thing it needed was another, particularly one involving the Paris bourse. On June 10th the bourse's chairman,...
Tags: E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.
Research articles 1988-06-18
Citigroup gets green light to list on Tokyo bourse
TOKYO AFP — US financial giant Citigroup said Monday that it would list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on November 5 after receiving approval from Asia's largest bourse. The listing comes as the US giant moves to take full control of Nikko Cordial, Japan's third largest brokerage...
Tags: Citigroup Inc., Nikko Cordial Corp.
Research articles 2007-10-29
DATA ON COMPANIES WHO SHARES TRADED ON THE RIYADH SECURITIES BOURSE
A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper provided data on local companies whose shares are traded on the Riyadh Securities Bourse, as published in early November 2002 in the Report of the Saudi-British Bank. The shares of twenty-nine private companies are traded on this Bourse; their total equity is worth SR 33 billion ($8.8...
Tags: Saudi Telecom Co.
Research articles 2002-12-02
AVERAGE P/E RATIO AT SHENZHEN BOURSE APPROACH 70 TIMES
AsiaInfo Services 01-03-2008 Average P/E Ratio at Shenzhen Bourse Approach 70 Times SHENZHEN, Jan 03, 2008 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Companies listed at Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2007 totally raised CNY 117.521 billion, soaring 90.21% over a year earlier. Capital raised by...
Tags: Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Research articles 2008-01-03
Tanzania's National Bank of Commerce may list on bourse next year, XINHUA
URL: http://www.xinhua.org DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 23 Xinhua -- Tanzania's National Bank of Commerce NBC is pondering on listing its equities on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange DSE next year and thus becoming the country's first financial institution to trade shares on the bourse. "We...
Tags: National Bank of Commerce Inc.
Research articles 2004-09-23
PALESTINE: CESSATION OF TRADING ON THE SECURITIES BOURSE IN MID-NOVEMBER 2002.(Brief Article)
Al-Ayam newspaper printed a notice published in mid-November 2002 by the Management of the PA Securities Bourse in Nablus, West Bank Territories, announcing the cessation of trading for one day due to the curfew put on the city, which prevented Bourse employees from getting to work....
Tags: West Bank
Research articles 2002-12-16
Vivendi faces Bourse investigation.
French market regulators have opened an inquiry into financial information issued by Vivendi since January 2001, it emerged Tuesday.In a brief statement confirming the investigation, the stock market watchdog Commission des Operations de Bourse COB French market regulators have opened an inquiry into financial information...
Tags: Bourse, Vivendi Universal
Research articles 2002-07-10
Slight wobble amid bourse recovery
THE VN Index closed last week at 161.84, down 1.76 points from the previous week, after three successive weeks of gains. For the majority of this year the bourse has been on a downward slide. The government has been striving to stimulate the ailing index, which has risen...
Tags: bourse, British Broadcasting Corp., FINANCE, Investment, recovery, stock
Research articles 2003-12-15
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