Two popular equity indices that track the performance of French stocks are the CAC 40 and the MSCI France Index.
The CAC 40 is a common benchmark for the French stock market index, against which investors in French stocks measure their performance. It represents the 40 most significant stocks among the 100 largest companies on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (by market capitalization). The index is market-cap weighted. The MSCI France Index is also designed to measure the performance of French stocks (large and mid-cap), but with 79 constituents rather than only 40.
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