Buenos Aires Stock Exchange

Buenos Aires Stock Exchange
Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires
Type Stock Exchange
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Founded (1854)
Key people Horacio P. Fargosi, Chairman
Currency Argentine Peso
Indices MERVAL
Website www.bcba.com.ar

The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange (BCBA; Spanish: Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires) is the organization responsible for the operation of Argentina's primary stock exchange located at Buenos Aires CBD. Founded in 1854, is the successor of the Banco Mercantil, created in 1822 by Bernardino Rivadavia.

Citing BCBA's self-definition: "It is a self-regulated non-profit civil association. At its Council sit representatives of all different sectors of Argentina's economy."

The most important index of the Stock market is the MERVAL (from MERcado de VALores, "stock market"), which includes the most important papers. Other indicators are Burcap, Bolsa General and M.AR., and currency indicators Indol and Wholesale Indol.

The Stock Exchange's current, Leandro Alem Avenue headquarters was designed by Norwegian-Argentine architect Alejandro Christophersen in 1913, and completed in 1916. A modernist annex was designed by local architect Mario Roberto Álvarez in 1972, and inaugurated in 1977.

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Coordinates: 34°36′14″S 58°22′14″W / 34.60389°S 58.37056°W / -34.60389; -58.37056


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