Budapest Stock Exchange

The Budapest Stock Exchange (Magyar: Budapest Stock Exchange ) is a regional stock exchange in Budapest, Hungary, and a subsidiary of the CEE Stock Exchange Group.

The Exchange was founded in 1864 by the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I in Pest. Until the turn of the century, the Budapest Stock Exchange developed into a thriving securities exchange. Due to the Great Depression of the 1930s, the stock market was closed in 1932 temporarily. With the beginning of communist rule after the Second World War, the majority of the Hungarian company was nationalized, any trading therefore set by the government and the assets of the Exchange state property. On 21 June 1990, the institution was reopened in the wake of the political changes in the Eastern bloc with the participation of the Vienna Stock Exchange.

In February 2003, the Budapest Stock Exchange agreed whereby Hungarian equities broker system able to trade a collaboration with the German Stock Exchange within the entire infrastructure of the Xetra.

Since 2008, the Vienna Stock Exchange and CEE Stock Exchange Group owns approximately 50.5 % of the shares on the Budapest Stock Exchange.

Since December 2013, the electronic trading runs on the Xetra trading system.

Companies in the Budapest Stock Exchange ( BUX )

(As of December 2008) Link