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social science subjects > business and management > finance > international finance > CAC 40 Index
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CAC 40 Index  

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  • The CAC 40 is the foremost of several related French benchmark stock indices tracking the performance of stocks on Euronext Paris (formerly the Paris Bourse), and is one of the most-watched Euronext stock indices. The index takes its name from the Cotation Assistée en Continu (CAC), the electronic trading system implemented on the Paris Bourse in the late 1980s and used for all listed stocks by 1989. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; CAC 40 Index (Paris)]

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