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May 18, 2003Mr. François BILTGEN, Minister in charge ofCommunications, visited the Luxembourg StockExchangeThe Minister was given a presentation of the projects and developments ofthe company’s business plan, in particular in connection with IT andtelecommunications aspects.The presentation focused on the activities conducted by the LuxembourgStock Exchange and its subsidiary CCLux with regard to the collection,processing and dissemination of financial data. The presentation wassupported by a demonstration of the Stock Exchange’s Internet portals,more specifically the portal www.cclux.lu launched by the Stock Exchangeon April 2, 2003, and the quality control procedures applied to ensure thereliability of the data.July 17, 200340 th anniversary of the listing of theUS dollar 15 million Autostrade, 5.50%,1963-78 EurobondA major event with respect to Eurobond listing was, on July 17, thecelebration of the 40 th anniversary of the Autostrade issue, the first listingof a Eurobond on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, which also markedthe 40 th anniversary of the Eurobond market. Since its launch onJuly 17, 1963, and the launch of other bonds such as those denominatedin European units of account, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange has takenfull advantage of an expertise of more than forty years in internationalsecurities listing to be recognized as the major listing centre for suchsecurities. In 1963, 93 bond issues were listed in Luxembourg, as against21,285 in 2003.The LuxXThe LuxX (basis 1,000 on January 4, 1999), the Luxembourg StockExchange index, is a basket index calculated both as a price index, theLuxX Price, and as a return index, the LuxX Return. Its constituents areperiodically reviewed under the supervision of the Stock ExchangeCommittee.The Luxembourg equities market was marked in 2003 by a sharp rise ofthe LuxX index.At year-end, the values of the LuxX index were 1,018.88 for the price indexand 1,117.36 for the return index, up 29.02% and 32.97% respectively.The LuxX price index reached its historical low (639.86 points) onMarch 12 and its yearly high (1,018.88 points) on December 31, 2003.The LuxX showed one of the best performances compared with those ofthe major foreign markets.10FactBook 2004