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Stock exchange lexicon letter C |
CAC 40: - abbreviation of: Quotation Assisted into Continuous of the 40 larger French firms.
The CAC 40 is an index (pack of securities), made up of the 40 French firms most important in capital invests out of purse.
The was creates on June 15th, 1988 with an initial value of 1000 points, its development since is the average of the percentages of the 40 shares the component, knowing that there was much movement in these 40 large companies (mergers, acquisitions or growth corporate replacing another) and that they do not have all the same weight in this average.
We are this year on the 6000 points, which means that while buying into 1988 the shares composing the you would have multiply by 6 your investment, without counting the annual dividends which versed but are not entered in the points of the .
With what does correspond 1 point on the ?
1 point corresponds, with current exchange rate (6000 points), with an average variation of 0,016% of the 40 shares the component.
100 points thus corresponds to an average variation of 1,66% of the 40 shares, by not forgetting that each share does not have the same weight (see board below).
Composition of the and weight of each value in this index (at the 2/8/08):
The 6/18/07 Air France-KLM and replaced of Thomson and in the composition of the .
Company name |
Weight in the index in % |
Company name |
Weight in the index in % |
1,03 |
LAGARDERE |
0,69 |
|
AIR FRANCE - KLM |
0,54 |
2,16 |
|
LIQUID AIR |
2,36 |
MICHELIN |
0,95 |
1 |
4,55 | ||
ALSTOM |
1,62 |
1,47 |
|
AXA |
4,35 |
PEUGEOT |
0,90 |
BNP PARIBAS |
6,02 |
PR |
0,81 |
1,42 |
RENAULT |
1,59 |
|
CAP GEMINI |
0,59 |
SAINT |
1,85 |
CROSSROADS |
2,97 |
6,61 |
|
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE |
1,84 |
1,94 |
|
DANONE |
2,81 |
GENERAL SOCIETY |
4,14 |
1,05 |
STMICROELECTRONICS |
0,55 |
|
0,67 |
SUEZ |
5,88 |
|
EDF |
2,88 |
TOTAL |
12,60 |
0,89 |
1,34 |
||
FRANCE TELECOM |
5,32 |
0,73 |
|
GAZ DE FRANCE |
1,04 |
VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT |
2,36 |
L'OREAL |
2,61 |
2,49 |
|
1,80 |
3,59 |
CAL or COULD:
The cal and the are sale or options to buy, standard Warrants, or Certificates.
These sale or options to buy can be on various supports, the indices, the shares, the raw materials, currencies… etc
One Cal goes up when its support goes up and one Could goes up when its support drops.
One can also see these names in verb. example: - On the previous day I have the CAC 40 and to fix share EDF.