Sector Profile (Domestic, Year End 1998)
				No. of Domestic Listed Cos.	Market Cap Mil., Francs		Market Cap Mil., US$	% of Market Capitalization
Banks & Financial Services				4	589,699		17,056	7.01
Building				8	135,391		3,916	1.61
Chemicals				12	794,475		22,978	9.45
Electricity & Gas				3	1,395,253		40,354	16.60
Food				9	45,474		1,315	0.54
Holdings				34	2,674,933		77,366	31.82
Insurance				2	1,212,640		35,073	14.42
Metal-Electro-Electronics				11	221,166		6,397	2.63
Miscellaneous Industries				12	138,345		4,001	1.65
Miscellaneous Services				18	347,858		10,061	4.14
Non-Ferrous Industry				3	38,499		1,113	0.46
Oil				2	372,551		10,775	4.43
Property				11	79,918		2,311	0.95
Provisional				4	493		14	0.01
Retailing				4	339,651		9,824	4.04
Steel				1	11,386		329	0.14
Tropicals				4	9,853		285	0.12
Total				142	8,407,583		243,169	100.00
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