Stock Exchange 

• Brussels 

  + 1

  Bruxelles
• Beursplein 

  + 1

  Place de la Bourse
• Brussel-Hoofdstad/Région de Bruxelles-Capitale 
• Belgium 

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Stock Exchange

Brussels, Bruxelles

Beursplein, Place de la Bourse

E. Stockmans & Co, Antwerpen, Red Star Line

Architecture, Buildings: Stock exchange buildings, Cityscapes

14.2 x 10.0 cm

The Brussels Stock Exchange (French: Bourse de Bruxelles, Dutch: Beurs van Brussel), 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. The Red Star Line was an ocean passenger line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium. The company's main ports of call were Antwerp[1] in Belgium, Liverpool and Southampton[1] in the United Kingdom and New York City[1] and Philadelphia[citation needed] in the United States. The company operated until 1935 when, due to the economic depression they ceased trading and its assets were eventually sold to the Holland-America Line.