The
Brussels Stock Exchange (, ), abbreviated to
BSE, was founded in
Brussels,
Belgium, by decree of
Napoleon in 1801. On 22 September 2000, the BSE merged with
Paris Bourse,
Lisbon Stock Exchange and the
stock exchanges of
Amsterdam, to form
Euronext N.V., the first pan-European exchange for
equities and
derivatives, with common trading and clearing of all products, and was renamed
Euronext Brussels. The most well known index on the Brussels Stock Exchange is the
BEL20. It now belongs to the
NYSE Euronext group, the first global stock exchange.