What is the Warsaw Stock Exchange general index (wig)?

The Warsaw Stock Exchange General Index (WIG) is a major stock market index which tracks the performance of all domestic companies (investment funds are excluded) listed on the main market of The Warsaw Stock Exchange. It is a free-float, income base, total return index which includes dividends and pre-emptive subscription rights.

What is the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE)?

The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) was founded in 1991 following the overthrow of Poland's communist regime three years earlier. The WSE is the biggest exchange in Central and Eastern Europe. It operates a financial market and a commodities market. As of April 2021, there were 432 companies listed on the exchange's main and parallel markets.

What does WSE stand for?

The WSE is a member of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges. On 17 December 2013, the WSE also joined the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative. Old Town Hall, place of securities trading before the establishing of the Mercantile Exchange in 1817. Destroyed in 1817.

When did the WSE start trading?

The WSE began activity in its present form on 16 April 1991. On the first trading day only five stocks were listed (Tonsil, Próchnik, Krosno, Kable, and Exbud). Seven brokerages took part in the trading, and there were 112 buy and sell orders, with a turnover of only 1,990 złotys ($2,000).