Analysis - Vienna Stock Exchange on a “Sustainable Upward Trend”

More+Comment ♦ Published: October 30, 2013; 17:32 ♦ Updated: November 5; 18:00 ♦ (Vindobona)

After five downhill years, the Vienna Stock Exchange is finally seeing something like a silver lining.

Analysis - Vienna Stock Exchange on a “Sustainable Upward Trend” / Picture: © Wiener Börse AG / VSE Vienna Stock Exchange

From 2002 to mid-2007, the ATX 20 index at the stock exchange in Vienna soared to its fourfold value. However, the Lehman Brother’s bankrupcty was a sharp blow and sent the ATX right back to its state of 2002. Moreover, according to Michael Buhl, member of Vienna Stock Exchange’s supervisory board, another key factor is that privatizations has stopped. “Privatizations stopped…