MCX-SX, the Third National Stock Exchange Made its Debut in India

MCX-SX, the third bourse on the equities and equity derivatives trading block debuted on 11 February 2013. It is the third national stock exchange of India after Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. MCX-SX started its trading in shared of 1116 listed companies against 1665 companies in National Stock Exchange and 5191 companies in Bombay Stock Exchange.

MCX-SX Index:

MCX-SX Index is called SX40. This is like Sensex of BSE and Nifty of NSE. SX40 is formulated for measuring the economic performance through polished presentation of different industries as well as sectors based on ICB, which is a leading international classification from FTSE-100 of Britain.

SX40 Constituents:

SX40 constituents are as follows:
•ACC
•Ambuja Cements
•Asian Paints
•Bajaj Auto
•BPCL
•Bharti Airtel
•BHEL
•Cairn India
•Cipla
•Coal India
•Dr Reddy's
•Gail (India)
•HCL Tech
•HDFC Bank
•HDFC
•Hero MotoCorp
•Hindalco
•HUL
•ICICI Bank
•Infosys
•ITC
•JP Associates
•JSPL
•L&T
•Lupin
•M&M
•Maruti Suzuki
•NTPC
•ONGC
•Power Grid Corp
•RIL
•Sun Pharma
•TCS
•Tata Motors
•Tata Power
•Tata Steel
•Titan Industries
•United Spirits
•Wipro
•Zee Entertainment

What is SX40:

•SX40 is the free-float based index, which means that the shares are available at any time for trading. It is an index of 40 large-cap as well as liquid stocks.
•SX40 includes those companies which have minimum free float of 10 per cent. These companies are included within top 100 liquid companies.
•In terms of international indexes, Britain's FTSE includes 25 percent free float criteria and US S&P 500 includes 50 percent free float criteria.

MCX-SX’s competition:

•The direct competition of MCX-SX is with NSE and BSE.